Menopause Specialists Who Accept Medicare in Alabama
37 practitioners have an office in Alabama, and 55 more can see patients here by telehealth. 56 of them are certified by the Menopause Society, and the most are in Huntsville, Birmingham and Dothan.
Pam Jones is a nurse practitioner at Aventa Specialized Women's Care, a large OB/GYN practice in Dothan that also delivers babies and does gynecologic surgery. She joined in March 2026 and says menopause is her particular interest, with a focus on women going through perimenopause and menopause. She started out in 1997 as a labor and delivery nurse and has spent her whole career caring for women. Menopause visits here are ordinary office visits billed to insurance. The office sits next to Flowers Hospital, so many patients book a mammogram or bone density scan on the same day as their annual visit. The practice is taking new patients and has online scheduling.
Options Wellness is a small women-owned clinic in Muscle Shoals run by two nurse practitioners and a nurse administrator. They focus on gynecology and midlife care for women who are not pregnant, and see patients from puberty onward. Hormone therapy comes as pills, patches, sublingual forms or injections, and the choice is made together with the patient. The practice does not offer pellets. Vaginal estrogen is used for dryness and to help prevent urinary infections, and testosterone is offered for low desire. Amy Beth spent years in cardiovascular care and the cath lab, and the clinic puts real weight on heart and metabolic risk, not only symptom relief.
Hormone Health and Fibromyalgia Specialists of Alabama opened in Huntsville in 2025 after its founder went through her own perimenopause and fibromyalgia and could not get help across four separate specialties. Jana Jackson treats both women and men for hormone change, and the practice argues that perimenopause can start in the mid thirties and that a normal lab result is not a reason to turn someone away. Her hormone work uses commercially available products from a local pharmacy rather than compounded formulas, and she adds testosterone for women as a matter of routine rather than treating with estrogen alone. The clinic also runs supervised medical weight loss with semaglutide and tirzepatide and often pairs that with hormone therapy. Jackson is a PhD candidate researching the root cause of fibromyalgia, with early findings pointing toward a neuro-endocrine withdrawal mechanism. Visits are available in person and by video, and the office is open Monday through Thursday.
Elizabeth Irby is a nurse practitioner at Women4Women OBGYN, an all female obstetrics, gynecology and midwifery practice in Huntsville that she joined when it opened in 2017. She is the only clinician on its roster who lists the Menopause Society certification, and her bio names contraception counseling, infertility, PCOS and menopause related issues as her areas of interest. The practice books a dedicated Menopause Consult and asks patients to bring a three page menopause questionnaire that covers menopause status, past hormone therapy and a long symptom checklist. That form asks women who have never used hormone therapy whether they are interested in it, and it states plainly that the office does not prescribe or insert hormone pellets. Patients are asked to pick their top three concerns because more than three may need a second visit. She also serves as the practice's clinical nurse manager, and the vaginal laser treatment the practice advertises for postmenopausal vaginal changes is performed by two of its physicians rather than by her.
Dr. Swing is a board-certified OB/GYN whose practice is built around hormone care for women in perimenopause and menopause. A first-person account on the site describes going through menopause in the mid forties, finding that the regimens taught in residency did not work, and then taking extra training in bioidentical hormone therapy. Hormone patients join an annual cash-pay program, and the practice will only fill hormone prescriptions for women enrolled in it. Testosterone pellets are placed in the office in a procedure that takes ten to twenty minutes, written up in the first person down to how long the paper strips stay on. Routine gynecology runs on a separate track and is billed to insurance. A nurse practitioner joined in 2025 and covers much of the general gynecology.
Kirby Plessala runs a solo gynecology and fertility practice in Mobile and has been seeing patients there since 1994. He is the only clinician in the office, supported by nurses, sonographers and administrative staff. His hormone work covers the pre, peri and post menopausal stages, and he provides hormone therapy as pills, patches, creams, vaginal products, injections, sublingual troches and pellets. He describes himself as the only provider in Mobile certified in bioidentical hormone therapy, and he holds pellet certifications through Biote and Evexias. The practice also handles general gynecology, PCOS, fertility care without IVF, and evaluation after pregnancy loss, and it does hysteroscopy and endometrial ablation in the office. He grounds the practice in faith and family and belongs to the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
