2014-04-25

Medicare HETS 270/271 Submitters:

The previously announced HETS 270/271 outage for Saturday, April 26, 2014 has been rescheduled.  The new maintenance window will begin at 9:00 PM ET on Saturday, April 26, 2014.  The HETS 270/271 system will be unavailable during this period.  Attempts to open a connection to the HETS 270/271 application will result in errors.  CMS estimates that the maintenance window will be completed by 6:00 AM ET on Sunday, April 27, 2014.

CMS also announces a new outage to the HETS 270/271 application the weekend of May 9-11, 2014.  The maintenance window will begin at 9:00 PM ET on Friday, May 9, 2014.  The HETS 270/271 system will be unavailable during this period.  Attempts to open a connection to the HETS 270/271 application will result in errors.  CMS estimates that the maintenance window will be completed by 9:00 PM ET on Sunday, May 11, 2014.

These outages are in addition to the previously announced outages on Saturday, May 3, 2014 and Sunday, May 4, 2014.

Please contact the Help Desk if you have any questions.