Medicare A&B will be offline from 7:00 AM CT Saturday, August 2, 2014 through 8:00 AM CT Sunday, August 3, 2014. Here’s the original message from CMS regarding the downtime.
This is a reminder that CMS announced an upcoming outage to the Medicare HETS 270/271 eligibility system the weekend of August 2 – 3, 2014. The outage will begin at 8:00 AM ET on Saturday, August 2, 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 9:00 AM ET on Sunday, August 3, 2014.
