The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says that, as far as it's concerned, an insurer should have up until Halloween to tell Affordable Care Act public exchange plan enrollees about a decision to pull an individual product from the market in 2018.

Officials at the Center for Consumer Information & Insurance Oversight, arm of CMS, announced that position Thursday in a new batch of guidance.

The open enrollment period for 2018 individual coverage is set to run from Nov. 1 through Dec. 15.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.