According to a recent report, total aggregate hospital costs for 35.6 million hospital ...

... stays totaled $381.4 billion in 2013. Here are the top five most expensive conditions, which accounted for approximately one-fifth of those costs:

• septicemia: $23,663 million
• osteoarthritis: $16,520 million
• liveborn (newborn) infants: $13,287 million
• complication of device, implant or graft: $12, 431 million
• acute myocardial infarction: $12,092 million

Source: "National Inpatient Hospital Costs: The Most Expensive Conditions by Payer, 2013," Health Case and Utilization Project (H-CUP)/Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), H-CUP Statistical Brief #204, May 2016, http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb204-Most-Expensive-Hospital-Conditions.jsp?utm_source=AHRQ&utm_medium=AHRQSTAT&utm_content=Content&utm_term=HCUP&utm_campaign=AHRQ_SB_204_2016