title: The changing world of ancillary benefits.
abstract: Amid salary and health care benefit cuts, ancillary benefits such as dental, life insurance, long-term disability and vision coverage can communicate employers' concern for their employees as well as serve as recruitment and retention tools. These benefits can be funded by the employer, the employee or both.
authors.affiliation: Fortis Benefits Insurance Co., Cincinnati, USA.
authors.forename: Anne Chalupa
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D003729:Dental Care / Q000191:economics; D017049:Employer Health Costs; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D007342:Insurance Benefits; D018868:Insurance, Disability / Q000191:economics; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000191:economics*; D019464:Tax Exemption; D014481:United States; D015351:Vision Screening / Q000191:economics