Medicare HETS 270/271 Submitters:
CMS announces that the HETS 270/271 2012 Q2 release will be installed on Saturday, July 14, 2012. There are no submitter facing changes included in this release. No content changes to the 270 request are required for this release and there will be no changes to the HETS 271 response.
The release is scheduled to be installed on Saturday, July 14, 2012 beginning at 7:00 AM ET. The HETS 270/271 application will be unavailable during the system release. CMS estimates that the maintenance will be complete by 7:00 PM ET on Sunday, July 15, 2012.
Please note that this outage is in addition to the previously announced outage on Saturday, June 30, 2012. Please contact the MCARE Help Desk if you have any questions or comments.
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