CMS will perform testing on the Medicare HETS 270/271 eligibility application beginning at 9:00 AM ET on Sunday, August 2, 2009. The HETS 270/271 application will be available during testing; however, submitters may notice some degradation in system performance during the testing window. Submitters may experience higher than normal average response times or some AAA03=42 'System Unavailable' time out responses from the system. Please remember that the HETS 270/271 system may wait up to 60 seconds before returning a AAA03=42 time out response. If your system is generating timeouts prior to 60 seconds, please understand that you may not be waiting long enough to receive an answer.
CMS estimates that testing will be completed by 4:00 PM ET on Sunday, August 2, 2009.
Please contact the MCARE Help Desk if you have any questions or comments.