Question-and-Answer Session
[Operator Instructions]. The first question is from Ricky Goldwasser from UBS.
Ricky Goldwasser - UBS
Good morning. With the sequential volume improvement that you've showed in the second quarter, can you just provide us little more color on the key variables namely that you are gaining back in the business there and pull through. And also as we think about the second half of the year, are there additional tailwinds that would help continue that trend? And then secondly, just to clarify if you can repeat the breakdown of the $0.24 in cost for the year, and is the increase coming from India and if so, if you can give us more detail on that.
Robert Hagemann - Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Hey Ricky, let me try and get each of those, but first let me clarify one thing, the $0.24 in cost that you mentioned, its $0.17. You may recall we initially indicated we expected to invest $0.20, we've now adjusted that down to $0.17, the change principally coming because we are spending less in India. We're expecting Indian investment to now be $0.04 a share versus the $0.07 that we had initially estimated.
Ricky Goldwasser - UBS
Thank you for clarifying that confusion.
Robert Hagemann - Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
With respect to volume, basically this is the underlined volume. We'll try to take out the NOIs for you and as we said it has been increasing 1% to 2% over pretty much the last four quarters now. The UHC impact, we've actually decided to stop talking about that because it's less than it has been as you recall. It... we lost most of that business last year in the first quarter, by the end of the first quarter and we didn't plan on spending a lot of time talking about it principally because it's not having a significant impact on the year-over-year comparisons any longer. The impact of volume is less than 1% and the revenue impact is around 1%. With that said though we did retain over 20% of the volume and we've seen no change in the associated pull through with UHC. And in terms of volumes, as you know we don't give guidance for price and volume; but I am encouraged by the fact that we've seen nice steady trends in volume growth, over the last four quarters or so.
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