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BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine if we could identify patient factors that were predictive of Medicare and privately insured patients being "high-cost." METHODS Ninety-day episode-of-care insurance company payments along with collected demographics, comorbidities, and readmissions were reviewed for a consecutive series of primary total joint arthroplasty patients from 2015 to 2016 at our institution. High-cost patients were identified by determining those patients above the cutoff, where the cost data became demon