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, March 4, 2017. 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 4:00 PM ET on Saturday, March 4, 2017.
Please note that this outage is in addition to the previously announced outage for Friday, February 24 – Sunday, February 26, 2017 (see below).
Please contact the Help Desk if you have any questions.