With the new year underway and January marking National Eye Care Month, now is the ideal time for benefits advisors to start conversations about ancillary products like vision.

For employers, offering workplace benefits and savings decision support that consider specific employee needs can help to drive greater efficiency, overall savings potential and optimize utilization of employee benefits.

The Value in Health Care Act would provide a 2-year extension of the 5% advanced payment model incentives, which allow clinicians to cover some of the costs of moving to a new payment model, including expanding care teams.

The former South Carolina governor, who's now vying to be president, has become well known as one of the ACA's loudest critics, and is making her views known on abortion, vaccine mandates and other health care topics.