Medicare HETS 270/271 Submitters:
CMS announces a new upcoming outage to the Medicare HETS 270/271 eligibility system. CMS data center maintenance will begin at 7:30 AM ET on Sunday, September 1, 2019. 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, September 1, 2019.
Please note that this outage is in addition to the previously announced outage for August 23-24, 2019 (see below).
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