Menopause Specialists Who Accept Insurance in California
516 practitioners have an office in California, and 125 more can see patients here by telehealth. 388 of them are certified by the Menopause Society, and the most are in San Francisco, Newport Beach and San Diego.
Dr. Westgate works in a Community Health Network ob/gyn office in Westfield, north of Indianapolis. She stopped practicing obstetrics in 2020 and now sees only gynecology patients, and she has extra training in cancer prevention and early detection plus a women's genomics counseling certificate from ACOG. The network's menopause page names her as one of two doctors it points women to when menopause symptoms or sexual health problems follow cancer treatment. Menopause care there covers hormone therapy with estradiol, progesterone and testosterone, vaginal estrogen, and non-hormonal medicines for women who cannot or choose not to use hormones. She also still operates, including laparoscopy and vNOTES, so heavy perimenopausal bleeding can be worked up and treated by the same doctor. This is a health system practice, so scheduling and messaging run through MyChart, and visits can be in person or virtual.
Dr. Paul sees patients by video through The Menopause Clinic, a menopause service run with OB-GYN Associates in Reno. The clinic only sees established patients of the group, and you have to stay current with one of its in-office providers to keep your place. So a new patient first books a regular gynecology visit and then gets referred. She spent 17 years in obstetrics and another 10 in full-time gynecology before stepping back to focus on perimenopause and menopause. The clinic uses FDA-approved hormone therapy in pill, patch and vaginal forms alongside non-hormonal options, and it also sees breast cancer survivors.
Dr. Kroll is a board certified OB/GYN who runs a concierge practice in Newport Beach with her husband, an internist. She was the first OB/GYN in Orange County to go concierge. She prescribes estrogen, progesterone and testosterone in many forms, including FDA approved, compounded and pellet options, as well as non-hormonal treatments. Menopause visits also cover screening for osteoporosis, heart disease and muscle loss. New patients can book a single consultation or join for a year, which adds longer visits and a 24 hour line to the doctor. She has been through menopause herself and says that shapes how she talks with patients.
BreAnne Huss is the only provider in the women's health service at North Idaho Dermatology, a skin, plastic surgery and spa group in Coeur d'Alene. She started as a labor and delivery nurse in 2003 and later taught in Georgetown's nurse midwife program. Her focus is perimenopause, menopause and the care of women over 50, and she has hormone therapy training through the Heather Hirsch Academy. The service also does annual gynecology exams, birth control, PCOS and lichen sclerosus care, and same-day visits for vaginitis. The group's online scheduler did not list her, so booking with her likely means calling the office.
A psychiatry practice built around reproductive and women's mental health across the lifespan, from puberty through menopause, alongside general adult psychiatric care for anxiety, depression, ADHD, obsessive-compulsive disorder, bipolar disorder and trauma. Care is given in person in Austin or by video in Texas and California, on an insurance-based model with a small team of a psychiatrist, a physician assistant and two psychiatric nurse practitioners. Menopause work is framed psychiatrically. She judges where a patient is in her hormonal transition and weighing menopausal hormone therapy, antidepressants or both, with nutrition, supplement and sleep guidance alongside. The founder holds a perinatal mental health certification and further training in perimenopausal mental health.
Dr. Sungurlu is a gynecologist who serves as a woman's main doctor, covering primary care and gynecology in one office in San Luis Obispo. The practice runs as an MDVIP concierge membership with a small patient panel, same or next-day appointments, and phone access to her after hours and on weekends. Membership includes a yearly women's health workup with heart risk testing, bone health and hormone testing, and screening for depression and anxiety. She puts a lot of weight on prevention and talks with patients about sleep, exercise, hormonal health and cutting back medications where it is safe. You see her at every visit rather than a nurse practitioner or physician assistant. She has practiced in San Luis Obispo for over a decade and offers telehealth visits when you can't come in.
The GYN Lounge is a small gynecology practice in Fresno that Dr. Ikedilo built around perimenopause and menopause care. Most visits happen by video anywhere in California, though the office also does in-person procedures like endometrial ablation, vaginal laser and PRP injections. New patients book a perimenopause or menopause consultation online, fill out history and consent forms beforehand, and get a written cost estimate before the visit. On hormones she lays out both compounded bioidentical options and FDA-approved ones and explains the trade-offs of each, after bloodwork that checks sex hormones, thyroid and metabolic markers. She trained in OB/GYN in Baltimore, spent a year practicing alongside her father in rural Jamaica, and her first four years in California were at a federally qualified health center. A physician assistant who focuses on menopause and hormone therapy sees patients too, so some appointments are with her rather than with Dr. Ikedilo.
Jerusalem Makonnen sees patients at One Medical's Grand Lake office in Oakland, a membership primary care practice rather than a menopause clinic. She lists peri/menopause as her area of expertise and otherwise sees patients of all ages for general primary care. Most contact runs through the One Medical app, where members message their care team and use on-demand video visits around the clock. Scheduled visits with her, in the office or by video, are booked on top of the membership and billed to insurance, and the office takes same-day and next-day appointments. One Medical publishes nothing about which hormone treatments its providers use, so what she prescribes for menopause is not stated on the site. She trained at Yale, writes that she wants to create a safe space for everyone, and says she runs, does yoga and gets out to the California beaches with her family.
Dr. Cernaianu is a board-certified OB/GYN who also holds board certification in anti-aging and integrative medicine, and she runs a concierge practice alongside a separate med spa. Hormone care is a core service, and she prescribes FDA-approved estrogen, progesterone and testosterone products as well as compounded creams and pellets. She is upfront about which routes insurance covers and which are paid out of pocket. Her site says hormone follow-ups run about three times a year, and she avoids writing a year of refills at once. She also evaluates thyroid and adrenal concerns and treats urinary incontinence. Her training began in Bucharest, and she was the first foreign medical graduate admitted to the LSU residency program.
Anna is a nurse midwife who sees patients through Midi Health, a national virtual clinic. She came to menopause care at Stanford Health Care, where she found midlife patients had stopped raising their symptoms because they had been dismissed so often. She earned her Menopause Society certification and says she learned most by listening to her patients. Her stated area of expertise is vaginal health, including dryness and painful sex. Every visit is by video. A new patient fills in a short questionnaire that the clinician reads before the first visit.
Jennifer Tagatz sees patients through Midi Health, a national virtual clinic for perimenopause and menopause. Every visit is by video, and Midi's own clinician page names her and has her bio. She spent 20 years providing OB/GYN care at Kaiser Permanente before joining. She says she saw menopausal patients there who had no good source of education, and then went through her own hormone transition in her forties. Her mother was an OB/GYN nurse and her father a fertility specialist, so women's health was dinner table talk. Care at Midi can include hormone and non-hormone prescriptions, labs, supplements and weight medication. New patients book a half-hour first visit online, with short follow-ups after.
Ratelle is a women's health nurse practitioner in the obstetrics and gynecology office of Montage Medical Group, the physician group owned by Montage Health in Monterey. The office covers gynecologic care at every age alongside full pregnancy and birth care, and it lists menopause symptom management among the services at that location. Her own bio says she treats sexual and reproductive health as central to overall health, and that she spends time on education so patients can decide for themselves. She moved to Monterey from Vermont in 2020. Care runs through the health system rather than a private office, so you book by calling the office or by requesting a visit in MyChart. New patients print and fill out a registration form plus a separate obstetrics and gynecology history packet before the first visit, or arrive fifteen minutes early to do it there.
Giese has been an OB/GYN at Kaiser Permanente's Delta Fair Medical Offices in Antioch since she finished her residency in 2003. She works only in the outpatient clinic now and does outpatient gyn procedures, after years of labor and delivery and gynecologic surgery in the hospital. Menopause and midlife health is one of the topics she names as common in her practice, along with hormone therapy for menopause symptoms. Kaiser prescribes FDA-approved bioidentical estradiol and progesterone from its own pharmacies and advises against compounded hormone prescriptions, so that is the route to hormones here. She grew up in the East Bay and sees patients in Spanish, and she is board certified in lifestyle medicine on top of obstetrics and gynecology. She is also the physician site lead for the Delta Fair building, which means she works with every department in it.
Sacramento Women's Health is a seven-physician OB/GYN partnership on Fair Oaks Boulevard, running in the same practice line since 1960. Dr. Mikacich joined in 2009 and is the one the practice names as its menopause and weight loss specialist, and she is also a diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine. The services list says menopause management here uses FDA approved bioidenticals. She finished a master's in public health at UC Berkeley in 2024 focused on food and nutrition, and she describes her own practice as centered on menopause and metabolic health. She has been a medical consultant for Grey's Anatomy since 2005 and co-founded a perinatal mental health program in Denver before moving home to Sacramento. New patients call the office and bring a completed paper packet to the first visit, and she speaks fluent Spanish.
Dr. Beddow runs a solo OB/GYN office in San Mateo and has been practicing in the Bay Area for over two decades. She was on faculty at Stanford before returning to private practice. The office covers the full range of obstetrics and gynecology, so menopause and hormone evaluation sits alongside pregnancy care and surgical gyn work rather than being the whole practice. She is a mother of twins herself and says that gives her a particular bond with other twin mothers. New patients book online and the office confirms the appointment the next business day. Video visits appear on her schedule for established patients only, so a first appointment means going in.
Dr. O'Neill is a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist who also holds the Menopause Society's NCMP certificate. Menopause is one of several services at her small practice, alongside general gynecology, fertility, obstetrics and acupuncture. This is a general ob-gyn office, not a menopause-only clinic, and she admits to two San Jose hospitals for surgery and deliveries. The office is in a historic house in Campbell, and new patients fill out a history questionnaire before the first visit. Appointments are booked through an online scheduling page. The site does not say which menopause treatments she prescribes.
Trinitas is a small primary care practice for the whole family, and Dr. Yanni is its physician. She is board certified in both internal medicine and pediatrics, so one doctor can see a mother and her children. Menopause care sits inside the women's health visit, with hormone therapy as one of the options. She writes that she has been a cancer patient herself, and that it taught her how much being listened to matters. The practice bills insurance as a regular office, and an optional concierge membership for PPO patients adds longer visits and same-day or next-day access. Video visits are listed only as a concierge perk and only within California.
Sarah Norris works in the Women's Health department at Fairchild Medical Clinic, the outpatient arm of a small nonprofit community hospital in Yreka, in far northern California. Her own provider page names menopause management as one of her areas, alongside pregnancy, cervical and breast cancer screening, contraception and sexual health, so menopause care sits inside a general women's health practice rather than being the whole of it. She came to nursing after working as a birth doula and childbirth educator in the Bay Area, and she started practicing in 2012. Before moving to Yreka in 2021 she served with the Indian Health Service on the Navajo Reservation and then at Pine Ridge in South Dakota. New patients start by signing up for the hospital patient portal or by calling the clinic. The site does not describe what her menopause visits involve or which treatments she uses.
Millie is a Berkeley and San Jose women's health clinic that grew out of maternity care and now runs a perimenopause and menopause service open to anyone, not only its pregnancy patients. Erin is a family nurse practitioner with more than ten years in primary care and women's health, and she is one of a handful of clinicians at the Berkeley office you can pick by name when you book a menopause evaluation. She also sees women through Midi Health for menopause and midlife care, and she has done extra training in women's integrative medicine. Most menopause visits can be done by video, and you come into the Berkeley office when lab work, imaging or an exam is needed. The clinic was started by a patient who landed in the ER with postpartum preeclampsia and the midwife she called afterwards to ask what had gone wrong.
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Molly Jacobs is one of four clinicians in Open Door Gynecology, the gynecology service that runs out of the Plaza clinic in Arcata. That service treats menopause symptoms and prescribes hormone therapy, and it also handles contraception, heavy or irregular periods, pelvic pain, prolapse and PCOS. Open Door is a nonprofit community health center network on California's North Coast, so new patients start by calling its Member Services team rather than booking online. Income is checked at the visit for a sliding fee discount, and it applies even to patients who have insurance, which is part of why no fee list is published. Jacobs is also on the Plaza clinic's pregnancy and delivery panels, and the clinic runs its own lab with drop-in hours. Visits can be done by video through the patient portal, and providers can order tests and prescribe medication during a video visit.
Dr. Hannon is an OB-GYN who runs this Inner Richmond practice with her father, Dr. Ziyad Hannon, and a nurse practitioner who is also a Menopause Society certified practitioner. The practice describes its care as trauma-informed, and Dr. Hannon is an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ patients, including gender-affirming surgery. For menopause they prescribe patches, gels, pills and vaginal estrogen, with micronized progesterone, and they also offer nonhormonal options such as Veozah. Testosterone and other libido medications are available when low desire is the main concern. Labs are used only when they are clinically needed. Visits are in person, and new patients can request an appointment online or by phone.
Mary Newberry Davis is a certified nurse midwife at MarinHealth OB/GYN in Greenbrae, a MarinHealth Medical Network clinic. She has done midwifery and women's health work in the Bay Area for over twenty years and has been at MarinHealth since 2011. Most of her practice is birth care and gynecological care across the lifespan, and her bio says she also helps midlife patients work through the menopause transition with evidence-based information. She trained at UCSF and is a NARM Informed Professional, so she pays attention to how hard life experiences affect health, and she looks for the cause of a problem rather than treating symptoms alone. Visits happen in person at the Greenbrae office or by video, and the clinic publishes a new-patient registration form and an online appointment request. MarinHealth also runs a separate menopause clinic under another physician, and she is not on that team, so menopause care with her happens inside the regular OB/GYN practice.
West Coast OB/GYN is a group practice with offices in San Diego, Carlsbad and La Mesa, and Dr. French is one of the providers who work only out of the La Mesa office. The group does full obstetric and gynecologic care, and its gynecology list includes menopause and hormone replacement therapy. Her own bio says she follows women from adolescence through childbirth to menopause and beyond, and that she is drawn to minimally invasive surgery. She came to women's health first as a counselor for rape and domestic violence survivors and for women with eating disorders, then decided to go to medical school. New patients download registration and history forms from the site and send them in ahead of the visit. The practice keeps some evening hours and draws blood in the office.
WesternU Health is the teaching clinic of Western University of Health Sciences, and its Pomona center is where she works as a board certified family physician. Primary care there sits alongside specialty clinics in endocrinology, rheumatology and osteopathic manipulative medicine. Appointments run longer than at most offices because students and interns train there under supervision, and the clinic says that extra time is so patients can be heard. New patients fill out a registration form online or bring it to their first visit, and results and messages run through the OCHIN patient portal. Most of her own work now is medical education, as associate dean of clinical education at the osteopathic college and director of its health justice and equity track.
