Medicare HETS 270/271 Submitters:
CMS announces a change to the previously announced system outage notification as well as an additional new outage. Please see below for details.
Change:
CMS announces a change to the previously announced upcoming outage to the Medicare HETS 270/271 eligibility system. The outage will now begin at 11:30 PM ET on Friday, August 29, 2014. 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 10:00 PM ET on Saturday, August 30, 2014.
Additional Outage:
CMS also announces an additional upcoming outage to the Medicare HETS 270/271 eligibility system. The new outage will begin at 9:00 PM ET on Friday, September 5, 2014. 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 3:00 PM ET on Sunday, September 7, 2014.
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