Menopause Specialists Who Accept Medicare in South Dakota
21 practitioners have an office in South Dakota, and 36 more can see patients here by telehealth. 36 of them are certified by the Menopause Society, and the most are in Sioux Falls, Rapid City and Spearfish.
Dr. Wood Thum is a urologist who also trained in female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery. She sees women in Sioux Falls for prolapse, urinary incontinence and fistulas. Her own page says she also does hormone therapy evaluation and management, which is unusual for a urologist. That makes her a good fit if menopause shows up as bladder or pelvic floor trouble. She works in a large urology group with offices across South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa, and she teaches at the Sanford USD medical school.
Laurel Jennings is a family medicine physician at Madison Regional Health System, the hospital and clinic serving Madison and the rural area around it. She grew up in Miller, South Dakota and came here after medical school to practice family medicine with obstetrics, and she still cares for whole families and watches generations grow up. Menopause care sits alongside her obstetrics, pediatric and preventive work rather than being a separate clinic. She became a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner in 2026 after seeing how much unproven menopause advice circulates on social media, and she was of perimenopausal age herself at the time. Her stance is to talk through what is and is not FDA approved or safe for a particular woman instead of reaching for whatever is popular, and she points out that she gets no financial benefit from the treatments she recommends. Visits are in person at the clinic on weekdays and appointments are made by phone.
Amber Saloum is an OB/GYN at an Avera Medical Group clinic on the east side of Sioux Falls, where she works alongside four other providers. She practices full-spectrum obstetrics and gynecology, so menopause care sits next to pregnancy care, deliveries and gynecologic surgery. Her Avera profile names menopause as one of her two focus areas, and she also sees women for menstrual problems and pelvic pain. Hormone therapy is part of what Avera offers for menopause, and the system hands related problems like bone loss or sleep trouble to its own specialists. Surgery is a real part of her week, and she does ablation, laparoscopy and hysterectomy by the least invasive route she can, including robotic-assisted. She says she chose medicine because it joins two things she likes, science and serving people.
