2018-01-18

Medicare HETS 270/271 Submitters:

CMS announces several modifications to its previously announced HETS 270/271 outages for January 20 and January 26-28, 2018.

1. The previously announced HETS 270/271 installation on Saturday, January 20, 2018 has been rescheduled for Saturday, January 27, 2018.  HETS will be fully available on Saturday, January 20, 2018.  The rescheduled HETS 270/271 installation will begin at 7:30 AM ET on Saturday, January 27, 2018. 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 4:00 PM ET on Saturday, January 27, 2018.
2. The previously announced data center maintenance for January 26-28, 2018 has been rescheduled for February 2-4, 2018.  The rescheduled CMS data center maintenance will begin at 11:30 PM ET on Friday, February 2, 2018. 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, February 4, 2018.

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