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. Gutierrez is a board-certified OB-GYN who also trained as a minimally invasive gynecologic surgeon. Menopause and hormone therapy sit alongside her general gynecology care, so one office can handle both. Hormone treatment is built around each woman's symptoms and health history and can include bioidentical options. An optional yearly membership adds same-week visits, longer appointments, secure messaging with her and in-house hormone testing. Telemedicine is offered for eligible patients. She speaks English and Spanish, and she is not taking new pregnant patients.
Dr. Gregg practiced OB/GYN in Sacramento for 26 years and now runs a video-only practice focused on hormones, lifestyle and weight. You see her at every visit, and her medical assistant helps with prescriptions, referrals and follow-up in between. She follows Menopause Society guidelines and mostly prescribes FDA-approved bioidentical hormones, with non-hormonal options for women who can't or don't want to take them. She rarely prescribes compounded hormones and doesn't do routine saliva or blood hormone level checks. She also offers libido consults and is board certified in obesity medicine, so weight medication is an option. Because she doesn't see patients in person, you should keep your own gynecologist or primary care doctor for exams.
Dr. Kolomey is an internist who runs a small primary care practice and treats menopause as one of her main areas. She keeps a smaller patient panel so visits are longer and patients message her directly through the portal. Menopause care is organised as a six-month plan that covers symptoms, hormone therapy and non-hormonal options, sexual and urinary health, and bone and heart prevention. A body composition scan is part of it. She is also board certified in obesity medicine, so weight and metabolic changes at midlife are handled in the same practice. Visits can be in person or by video. The Antioch office closes at the end of 2026, after which she sees patients in Walnut Creek.
Emily Tan is a naturopathic doctor at UC Irvine's Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute, the university's integrative health clinic. Her own profile lists women's health and bioidentical hormones among her specialties, alongside brain health and digestive health. Most of her training is in the brain. She studied behavioral neuroscience, is board certified in neurofeedback and biofeedback, and is finishing a one-year fellowship in primary care psychiatry through the UC Irvine School of Medicine. Visits at the clinic usually run an hour, and the institute says its providers go through symptoms along with lifestyle and environment. A new patient fills in a request form or calls the clinic, and a UCI Health representative rings back within a business day to book.
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Toun Sogbein is a women's health nurse practitioner with Visana Health, a women's health practice that works entirely by video out of Minneapolis. She handles menopause and perimenopause along with the gynecological and sexual health problems that often sit alongside them, and she came to this work from public health clinics and a community health degree. First visits run 45 minutes, and patients stay with the same provider and can message the care team through the patient portal between visits. Visana's menopause care follows protocols written by Dr. Barbara Levy, and a patient can go the hormone route or a non-hormonal one after talking it through. Labs and imaging get ordered near home when they are needed, and optional health coaching covers food and exercise for anyone who wants that support. Many patients reach Visana through an employer or health plan, and the site has a start page where you look up yours.
Tammie Blair sees patients through Midi Health, a virtual women's health clinic that works by video only. She focuses on the hormonal changes of perimenopause and menopause, and names weight shifts, poor sleep, mood changes and painful sex as the symptoms those changes drive. A first visit runs about 30 minutes and ends with a written care plan, and follow-ups are shorter check-ins you can book as often as you need. Midi's hormone options are FDA-approved patches, pills, gels, creams and sprays, and a plan can also include vaginal estrogen, non-hormone prescriptions and GLP-1 medication. There is no office to visit, so Midi refers out anything that needs an exam such as a mammogram and asks you to keep seeing your own regular doctors. Her own page on the site has a booking link that starts a new patient with her.
Dr. Hoang runs a small solo gynecology practice in San Jose and has cared for women in the South Bay for more than twelve years. Her menopause program starts with a long first conversation about symptoms, health history, hormones and lifestyle. She offers hormone therapy when it fits, along with non-hormonal medicines, supplements and help with sleep and stress. She is also board certified in obesity medicine, so weight gain and metabolic health in midlife get real attention, and she runs a separate physician-led weight program that can include GLP-1 medicines. Patients can reach the office by phone or text between visits, and same-day or same-week appointments are often available. Many long-time patients first saw her for routine gynecology or pregnancy care.
Adams directs Stanford's menopause program and sees patients at the gynecology clinic in Palo Alto. The program offers in person consults, video consults, and video group visits. She is board certified in both obstetrics and gynecology and in lifestyle medicine, so diet, exercise and sleep come up alongside hormone therapy. Before Stanford she spent 14 years as residency program director at OHSU in Oregon, where she also ran the menopause and sexual medicine program. She hosts the program's podcast and gave a TEDx talk called Sleep, Sex, and Menopausal Zest. The program writes to its patients about practical problems like the estradiol patch shortage.
Dr. Han sees gynecology patients only and has narrowed her practice to women going through menopause. She says many of them come to her after feeling unheard or dismissed elsewhere. She describes care as a partnership where the patient has a voice in decisions. She works within Orange Coast Women's Medical Group, a large OB/GYN group with offices across south Orange County, and she sees patients in Irvine and Laguna Hills. The group's menopause page describes hormone therapy as pills, patches or vaginal creams, and lists non-hormonal options too. She earned a Master of Public Health at Harvard in 2023, focused on how social connection shapes health habits.
Chronis is a family medicine doctor at the Cedars-Sinai primary care office on South Fairmount Avenue in Pasadena, which sits inside Huntington Health. Her group's list of doctors taking new patients marks her as a certified menopause practitioner, and she is the only one of the six doctors at that office carrying that note. A colleague at the same office is marked as a hormone replacement specialist, so midlife patients there have two doctors to pick from. She sees patients in the office and by video, and a new patient can book an office visit, a physical or a video visit online. Her Cedars-Sinai profile carries no biography and no list of conditions, so nothing is published about how she handles hormone therapy. Her online booking showed limited availability for a first visit.
Dr. Mullin is one of three doctors at San Diego Women's Health, an OB/GYN practice with offices in La Jolla and Encinitas. Her bio says she is menopause certified and enjoys helping women through perimenopause and the years after. Menopause management sits alongside the rest of her work, which runs from low and high-risk pregnancies to minimally invasive surgery for fibroids and endometriosis. The practice also treats pelvic pain and urinary incontinence, and it screens for and treats osteoporosis. Hormones here can come as BioTE pellets, placed under the skin so the dose stays steady rather than rising and falling the way pills and creams do. She trained at Naval Medical Center San Diego and has practiced abroad in both developed and developing countries, and visits are in person at one of the two offices.
Dr. Gonzalez is an OB-GYN with Sutter Medical Group in Elk Grove and sees women of all ages. Her profile lists menopause and perimenopause among the conditions she treats, and she holds the Menopause Society certification. Most of what her page describes is gynecologic surgery, and she favors minimally invasive options such as robotic hysterectomy, myomectomy and endometrial ablation when surgery is needed. She says she puts weight on preventing gynecologic cancers and conditions. Her page does not say which menopause treatments she prescribes. Visits are in person only, she speaks conversational Spanish, and new patients book through the Sutter site or by phone.
Sharon Orrange is a primary care internist with Keck Signature Care, the concierge medicine program of Keck Medicine of USC, and she sees patients at its Beverly Hills office. Menopause hormone therapy is one of her research subjects, along with GLP-1 drugs, prediabetes and metabolic syndrome. Care splits between annual wellness visits, which cover screening and risk counseling, and primary care visits for chronic conditions and immediate problems. She is a diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine, so weight and metabolic health sit inside her everyday practice rather than in a separate program. The Beverly Hills office keeps weekday daytime hours and offers telehealth appointments. She also studies telemedicine in primary care and how drug prices affect whether patients keep taking their medicines, which is an unusual thing for a working primary care doctor to spend time on.
Dr. Oberman co-directs UCLA Health's Comprehensive Menopause Program, where she leads its education work, and she also keeps a general obstetrics and gynecology practice at the Westwood OBGYN office. New patients fill out a health questionnaire before the first visit that takes 30 to 45 minutes and is due a week ahead, so the consultation itself can go straight to symptoms and treatment. The first visit also screens bone, breast, cognition, heart, mood, sleep and genitourinary health, and anything needing a specialist is handed to another UCLA clinician rather than managed in the menopause clinic. Hormone therapy is offered alongside non-hormonal options such as gabapentin and fezolinetant, and the program schedules a yearly health assessment after that. Outside menopause she has a particular interest in women planning a trial of labor after a cesarean, and she was the lead gynecologist on UCLA trials using estriol in multiple sclerosis.
A three-provider Ob/Gyn clinic in Santa Barbara, part of Cottage Medical Group. Care runs from pregnancy and birth through gynecology, and the clinic names individualized menopause care as something its whole team is trained in. Her own bio on the clinic page says she is a certified menopause specialist too, so the menopause work is hers and not only a colleague's. She goes by Maribeth on the clinic site rather than Mary, which is worth knowing before you call. She came to midwifery from the NICU and has been attending births for about 15 years. Visits are booked by phone during weekday office hours, and the clinic says all of its providers are taking new patients.
Newport Beach Concierge MD is a small practice run by Dr. Gigi Kroll and Dr. Doug McConnaughey, and Aileen Slivkoff has worked with Dr. Kroll since 2008. Patients pay a separate concierge membership fee that buys longer visits and a 24 hour emergency line, and the practice limits how many people it enrolls, though you can also book a single consultation without joining. Hormone care sits in the practice's menopause service, which uses FDA approved hormones, bioidentical and compounded formulations, Biote pellets and non hormonal options. Slivkoff directs the practice's GetSlimly weight program, where she prescribes FDA approved GLP-1 medications and tracks muscle loss with body composition testing rather than handing out what the site calls skinny shots. She came to the practice from labor and delivery nursing, trained in the Harbor-UCLA women's health nurse practitioner program, and she is a Level 1 CrossFit coach who sees fitness and nutrition as the foundation of prevention. Everything is in person at the Newport Center office, and appointments are made by phone.
Dr. Harris is a gynecologist who has cared for women in the Inland Empire since 1990 and opened this practice in 2015 after years in large multi-specialty groups. She left that setting because visits felt rushed, and her own practice is built around longer first visits where she listens and explains. Hormone care leans heavily on bioidentical options. She uses SottoPelle pellets placed in the office and also prescribes creams, troches, suppositories and vaginal treatments. Your first hormone visit is in person in Corona, and qualifying follow-ups can be done by video. She also sees hormone patients and places pellets at a smaller satellite office in Indian Wells, and she treats men's hormones too.
Pamela Neff is an OB/GYN at T.H.E. Health and Wellness Centers, a federally funded community clinic group with five health centers around south Los Angeles that has been seeing patients since 1974. The clinic takes people regardless of ability to pay or immigration status, and its own pages cover gynecology, family planning and prenatal care rather than menopause. Her menopause practice is published through Gennev, a virtual menopause service where she sees California, New Jersey and Pennsylvania patients by video. She names perimenopause, menopause, premature ovarian insufficiency and breast cancer risk or survivorship among what she handles. Before Los Angeles she practiced nearly twenty years in Philadelphia, doing minimally invasive surgery and training OB/GYN residents. She says she listens first to what a patient has already been through with health care, then works out a plan with her.
This is a general OB/GYN practice that also delivers babies and does gynecologic surgery, so menopause care sits alongside the rest of women's health. Dr. Leach is also Medical Director of OB/GYN at John Muir Walnut Creek. The office prescribes FDA approved bioidentical estradiol and progesterone by mouth, on the skin or in the vagina. It prefers these to compounded hormones because blood levels can vary from batch to batch. Marybeth Wakefield, a nurse practitioner who also holds the Menopause Society certification, sees midlife patients in the same office. The practice works with the Cancer Support Community of Walnut Creek to help survivors with symptoms like vaginal dryness, including those who cannot use estrogen. New patients are currently being welcomed.
Dr. Pravdin is an OB-GYN who sees women in perimenopause and menopause. She also treats sexual health concerns such as low desire, painful sex and vaginismus. Visits are in person at a clinic in Redwood City or online for patients who live in California. Treatment can include hormonal and non-hormonal options, supplements, diet and lifestyle changes, and cognitive behavioral therapy. She schedules regular follow-ups and adjusts the plan as needed. She is fluent in Russian and conversant in French and Spanish.
Gina Woods is an endocrinologist at UC San Diego Health and directs the system's osteoporosis program. UC San Diego Health lists her among the specialists in its menopause health program, where her named role is bone health. Her own provider page names that program next to osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease. Bone is the center of her practice, so the midlife patient she sees most is one worried about fracture risk or a falling bone density score. She works out of the Perlman Medical Offices in La Jolla, and care runs the way it does at any large academic system, with new patients registering before a first visit and messages and records going through the patient portal. She teaches as well, as associate program director of the endocrinology fellowship and medical director of UC San Diego's bone densitometry course for other clinicians.
Angela is a women's health nurse practitioner with about twenty years in the field. Much of that time was in community care, including federally qualified health centers, family planning clinics and helping to start an OB care center for underserved women. She sees patients at the Nipomo health center of Community Health Centers of the Central Coast, a federally funded center that serves people whatever their ability to pay. Her listed services cover perimenopause and menopause alongside contraception, gynecologic procedures such as IUD placement and biopsies, and weight loss. New patients register through the center's navigation line and can then book by text, phone or the patient portal. Her bio says she wants women to feel respected and heard at their visits.
Fair Oaks Women's Health is an eight-physician OB-GYN group in the Huntington Pavilion beside Huntington Hospital, and it became part of Huntington Health and Cedars-Sinai in 2023. Jick is its medical director. He joined in 1989 and ran it as the solo doctor before it grew into today's group, and he is the only clinician the team page tags as a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner. Hormone consultations are arranged by calling the office and can be done by video or in person. He also performs the Valayza vaginal laser for dryness and painful sex after menopause, which the practice lists under his name. New gynecology patients print a forms packet and send it back ahead of the first visit, and the practice keeps a menopause resources page he writes in his own voice.
Wendy Ronco is a nurse practitioner at a large primary care practice in Exton, and her work there now centers mostly on menopause care. To see her you have to be a patient of the practice with one of its clinicians as your primary care provider. New patients can enroll with the practice and then book with her. She sees patients in the office and also does menopause visits by video on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, for patients who are in Pennsylvania at the time. She has spent her whole career in women's health and obstetrics and also handles gynecology such as Pap smears and IUDs. The practice's clinicians also run a free on-demand video series on menopause.
