Medicare HETS 270/271 Submitters:
CMS advises that is has updated the dates and times of previously announced Medicare HETS 270/271 eligibility system outages.
The HETS 270/271 outage for the weekend of Saturday, October 15 – Sunday, October 16, 2016 has been postponed. The amended outages are as follows:
The first outage will begin at 8:30 AM ET on Saturday, October 22, 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 2:00 PM ET on Saturday, October 22, 2016.
The second outage will begin at 8:30 PM ET on Saturday, October 22, 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, October 23, 2016.
Please contact the Help Desk if you have any questions.