Septicemia — defined by the National Library of Medicine as "a serious, life-threatening infection that gets worse very quickly" — is the costliest inpatient medical condition in the U.S.
That's according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which calculated total inpatient U.S. medical costs for 2011 and ranked the top 20 in terms of cost.
Anyone who's had any experience with septicemia knows how nasty, and costly to treat, the disorder can be.
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