Medicare HETS 270/271 Submitters:
CMS announces a new upcoming outage to the Medicare HETS 270/271 eligibility system. The outage will begin at 8:00 PM ET on Friday, July 28th 2017. The previous outage notification had stated the outage start time will be 8:00am. The correct outage start time is 8:00pm on Friday, July 28th 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 12:00 PM (Noon) ET on Sunday, July 30th 2017.
The CMS data center will undergo maintenance and the HETS 270/271 system will be unavailable. Attempts to open a connection to the HETS 270/271 application will result in errors.
Please contact the Help Desk if you have any questions.