Analysts at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are expecting account-based plans to cover 49 million U.S. residents in 2010, up from 4 million in 2005.
Chris McFadden, a health care analyst at Goldman Sachs, New York, made that prediction in New York at a health care symposium sponsored by Diamond Management & Technology Inc., Chicago, according to a report on the symposium released by Diamond.
Aamer Baig, a Diamond consultant, predicted HSAs will hold about $75 billion in assets by 2010.