UPDATE [11/05/2013 8:46AM CST] Recived the following update from CMS/Medicare:
Medicare HETS 270/271 Submitters: The HETS Medicare 270/271 Eligibility system
is currently experiencing system issues. A limited number of connections are
available to the application and a large number of requests are receiving errors
or experiencing high response times. This issue has been escalated to CMS IT for
review and resolution.