Medicare HETS 270/271 Submitters:
CMS announces an upcoming outage to the Medicare HETS 270/271 eligibility system. The outage will begin at 8:00 AM ET on Saturday, December 17, 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 PM ET on Saturday, December 17, 2016.
Following this outage, HETS will return updated 2017 deductible, copayment and coinsurance liabilities in the 271 benefit response.
Please contact the Help Desk if you have any questions.