Medicare HETS 270/271 Submitters:
CMS announces two upcoming outages to the Medicare HETS 270/271 eligibility system. The first outage will begin at 8:30 PM ET on Saturday, October 15, 2016. 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 5:00 AM ET on Sunday, October 16, 2016.
The second outage will begin at 8:30 AM ET on Saturday, October 22, 2016. 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 2:00 PM ET on Saturday, October 22, 2016.
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