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Spending on health care services increased in the second quarter after falling in the first three months of the year.

The Blues and WellPoint approached the exchange market aggressively in 2014, said Dan Mendelson, CEO of Avalere Health.

The tax on medical devices has so far fallen short of expectations.

WellPoint Inc., the second-largest health insurer in the United States, plans to change its name to Anthem Inc., the brand under which it sells most of its coverage.

Just over a quarter of the potential pool for small business health insurance has been penetrated by the industry, and that number appears to be declining, according to Mark Farrah Associates.

Health benefits vendor WellPoint decided to find out if consumer choices in medical care could be influenced by help with comparison shopping. The answer it got was a resounding yes.

Health care plan premiums will rise an average of 4.2 percent next year in Californias insurance exchange, the largest Obamacare market in the U.S., state officials said.

Longer term, questions remain on whether the slowdown seen recently in health-care costs can be definitively tied to PPACA or whether it was the result of a slow recovery from the 2008-09 recession.