Medicare HETS 270/271 Submitters
CMS reminds submitters of a scheduled outage to the Medicare HETS 270/271 eligibility system on Saturday, December 20, 2014. Please remind your operational staff of this weekend's outage (as detailed below).
Please contact the Help Desk if you have any questions.
From: CMS MCARE
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2014 12:28 PM
To: CMS MCARE
Subject: Medicare HETS 270/271 - System Outage Notification – December 20, 2014
Medicare HETS 270/271 Submitters:
CMS announces an upcoming outage to the Medicare HETS 270/271 eligibility system. The outage will begin at 09:00 AM ET on Saturday, December 20, 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 1:00 PM ET on Saturday, December 20, 2014.
Following this outage, HETS will return updated 2015 deductible, copayment and coinsurance liabilities in the 271 benefit response.
Please contact the Help Desk if you have any questions.