Director's Update

News From AHRQ's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)

• 45th State joins HCUP partnership: Alaska!
• HCUP finding: Septicemia was the single most expensive condition treated in U.S. hospitals at approximately $15.4 billion in 2009
  (HCUP Statistical Brief available at http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb122.jsp).
• New HCUP data: Nationwide Emergency Department Data Sample (NEDS) for 2009 now available.

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