Class Action Seeks to Halt Medicare Provider’s ‘Unsolicited Calling Activity’

Medicare and Medicaid provider Molina Healthcare violates the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by making prerecorded telemarketing calls to consumers without their consent to solicit annual health assessment appointments, and by placing calls to consumers after they told Molina’s employees to stop calling, alleged plaintiff Lauren Ramey’s class action Thursday (docket 2:23-cv-01312) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle. Consumers “posted many complaints online about unsolicited calls they received” from Molina, said the complaint. Despite telling Molina not to call her cellphone number, the Hoquiam, Washington, resident continued to receive unsolicited calls from Molina, including unsolicited prerecorded voicemails, it said. The unsolicited prerecorded voicemails caused Ramey “distress,” because she had to “continually delete the voicemails to free up memory on her phone so other people can leave voicemails,” it said. Her complaint seeks money damages and costs, plus an injunction requiring Molina “to cease all unsolicited calling activity.”