Dr. Raore is speaking at Becker’s 22nd Annual Spine, Orthopedic and Pain Management-Driven ASC + The Future of Spine Conference, set for June 19-21 at the Swissotel Chicago.
Bethwel Raore, MD, of Suwanee, Ga.-based Apex Spine and Neurosurgery, has been in practice for more than 15 years.
Dr. Raore is from Kenya and moved to the U.S. for college. In the last decade he’s gone on multiple mission trips to provide brain and spine care, and he founded the Kisumu Neuroscience Initiative to bring specialized care to western Kenya.
He earned his medical degree from Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, Neb., and he completed his residency at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.
In a January podcast, Dr. Raore said he wants to see significant changes in the peer-to-peer review process for spine care.
“One of the worst players … regarding their role are the physicians and the nurses who work for the insurance companies,” he said. “These are the people who took the Hippocratic oath to take care of the patient, but they will deny them coverage. They will deny imaging. They will deny medication that the patient wants to get, or that their physician has recommended, but they absolutely have no responsibility when this disease progresses. Then when there’s a death, they have no malpractice exposure in all of this. This is ridiculous. The insurance companies are able to achieve what they’re achieving because other physicians and other nurses and healthcare providers are participating.”