OMG at some of these comments!!! You DO realize that TennCare IS Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee, right?! Anyway, TennCare is just the name of the BCBS plan that you are on. You don't have to be financially disadvantaged for an insurance company to call you with an automated message reminding you to stay current on your check-ups!
It's not a finance department or bill collector!!!
Calm down & hit ignore! Or better yet, send them an email and ask them to take you off their calling list. FYI, the DNC list doesn't apply if you agreed to receive calls (probably from checking a box or "initialing here" without reading the entire statement) from a company whom obviously provides health services to you.
I got called after 8pm tonight from this number. Automated message from BCBS of Tennessee (employer corporate office is in TN, my site is in NM). They want to do a survey about customer satisfaction. I had to call BCBS last week while on vacation in search of an urgent care clinic. I'm sure they are trying to do a survey on that call. Fine and dandy...but not at 8pm.
I don't answer numbers I don't know, so when this number has called me (twice) I didn't answer. I have no connections whatsoever with Blue Cross Blue Shield: no subscriptions or accounts or ANYTHING with them. I never have and more than likely never will. They've called me twice anyway within a span of the last 3 weeks. The first call, no voicemail. The second call, an 8-second voicemail that only said: "We are experiencing technical difficulties right now." There's no reason for them to ever call me! This needs to stop.
You are right about the calls and frequency increasing if you answer. That is how they determine your number is a valid and working number, then it's on to the auction block. Same deal with emails.
It's is TennCare/BlueCare/BlueCross. When you answer it starts a recording about "important health information" and goes on about the overuse of antibitocis and staying healthy - I couldn't listen to all of it. Just a simple robo call - if you don't want it to ring when they call it's easy enough to put the number on the "block list".