During the upcoming Affordable Care Act open enrollment period for the 2019 plan year, healthcare.gov will have the same maximum potential downtime maintenance hours that it did last year for pre-planned maintenance, CMS announced Tuesday (Oct. 9). In the past, actual outage times have been shorter than planned. CMS said that the outages are necessary for the open enrollment verification process. Healthcare.gov will be offline for maintenance from midnight to noon every Sunday during the six-week open-enrollment period, except for...