Rachel Bratescu

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Becker’s Healthcare -- Spine and Orthopedic Podcast · Rachel Bratescu, MD, Orthopaedic Surgeon and member of the GW Spine and Pain Center at George Washington University Hospital · 10 Jan 2026 podcast

there are people who want to be.

So whether I'm serving as a mentor for somebody who is interested in the field of spine surgery, from someone from a research standpoint or academics, a medical student who's trying to decide what subspecialty they might want to go into, whether that's orthopedics or not, this is one of the reasons that I really enjoy being in an academic side of things because I do get to mentor and teach and really guide people and figure out

from both a medical student and a resident standpoint, what makes them happy and what might provide them with a fulfilling career.

Yeah, I would imagine that there are a number of other spine surgeons who have some of the same feelings on these issues.

But one of the main concerns for me for the upcoming year is really the continued challenges that we have and whether or not insurance companies are going to continue increasing things like denials and peer-to-peers.

The authorization process, this goes for imaging, but also surgeries in general, has just been incredibly time consuming.

It's challenging.

And we really noticed a drastic increase in...

the peer-to-peers required not just to get things like MRIs done, but also for denials related to surgeries.

And a lot of these patients are really well indicated and really suffering leading into their spine surgeries.

And it's something that we fight for.

And almost every spine surgeon that I know is fighting for on a daily basis.

So that's one of the challenges that we kind of brace ourselves as the years progress for in the upcoming year, but we will continue to fight it for our patients.

I think that one of the most important things, number one, is just the foundation of this, indicating your patients well for surgery, doing the right surgery for the right patient at the right time, as well as documenting.

I mean, your documentation supports your clinical decision-making.

You can look back at your notes.

or your office visits.

And you can say, this is what this patient's symptoms were.

This is from an imaging standpoint, what I believe the pathology is.

And this is why these are the things that they've tried and why I believe they're indicated for this specific surgery.

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