Dr. Caravelli is a family medicine physician who runs a small telehealth practice for women in perimenopause and menopause anywhere in Illinois. Care starts with an hour-long first visit, then labs, then a second visit to go over results and build a plan. Anyone who wants ongoing prescriptions, including hormone therapy, joins a monthly membership with quarterly visits and direct messaging with her. She also treats weight and metabolic changes and prescribes GLP-1 medications when they fit. Before starting the practice she was a regional medical director for a national healthcare company, and she teaches as an adjunct clinical professor at the osteopathic school where she trained. She is clear that she is not a primary care doctor, so patients keep their own physician for everything else.
Annie August runs a small cash-pay practice in St. Charles focused on perimenopause, menopause, thyroid and weight for midlife women, with video visits for women anywhere in Illinois. Care starts with a short paid Clarity Visit, then a two-part Foundations consultation with a broad lab panel included and a written six-month plan. Women who go ahead join a six-month program for hormone therapy, prescription oversight and portal messaging, then a lower-cost maintenance plan with visits every three months. She prescribes bioidentical hormones and offers compounded options, and GLP-1 medication is available in the weight program. She writes openly about her own early-40s crash, a Hashimoto's diagnosis and losing 50 pounds on hormone therapy. She cannot see anyone on Medicare, even as a paying patient.
