Medicare HETS 270/271 Submitters:
CMS announces an update to one of the previously announced outages schedule for the weekend of July 16-17, 2016. The amended outage notification is listed below.
The first outage will begin at 6:00 AM ET on Saturday, July 16, 2016. 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 Saturday, July 16, 2016. This outage will impact both the current and HETS R2016Q300 versions of the HETS system.
The second outage will begin at 11:30 PM ET on Saturday, July 16, 2016. 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 5:00 AM ET on Sunday, July 17, 2016. This outage will also impact both the current and HETS R2016Q300 versions of the HETS system.
Please contact the Help Desk if you have any questions.