Menopause Specialists Who Accept Insurance in California
519 practitioners have an office in California, and 126 more can see patients here by telehealth. 386 of them are certified by the Menopause Society, and the most are in San Francisco, Newport Beach and San Diego.
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.
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.
Shook is a registered dietitian nutritionist at Gennev, a menopause clinic that works entirely by video. This is nutrition and exercise work rather than prescribing, and the clinic's doctors are the ones who handle medication. Gennev's dietitians cover food, movement, sleep and supplements, and they share notes with the gynaecologist seeing the same patient. His stated focus is weight management and body composition, with cardiometabolic health and resistance training to preserve muscle, and he has published research on resistance training and women's health. For general menopause care a doctor refers you to the dietitian, but the weight management track lets you self-refer and start with the dietitian intake. A typical course of care runs every two to three weeks for at least three months, with unlimited messaging between visits.
Tamara De Angelis offers talk therapy by video for women in perimenopause and menopause. She is a licensed clinical social worker and does not prescribe, so hormone therapy and other medical treatment come from a woman's own doctor. This is her own solo practice and the main service is one-to-one therapy, with a weekly virtual therapy group as a second option. She works from cognitive behavioural therapy and a menopause-specific approach called EMBERS, and early sessions include menopause symptom questionnaires. She went through a hard menopause herself after several specialists missed it, and she says she will consult with a woman's other health providers. Care starts with a free 15-minute video call.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gennev is an all-virtual menopause clinic owned by Unified Women's Healthcare, and care starts with a 30 minute video visit with a menopause-trained doctor. Dunsmoor-Su is Gennev's chief medical officer and she also carries her own patient list. The areas she names herself include premature ovarian insufficiency, breast cancer risk and survivorship, endometriosis, and weight management with medication. Her background is clinical epidemiology, and she still runs women's health drug trials as a medical director at a Seattle research centre and teaches OB-GYN residents. She says she treats each visit as a chance to explain the current evidence so the decision about treatment is a shared one. Doctors here prescribe FDA-approved hormone therapy when a patient is a candidate and non-hormonal medicines when she is not, and the clinic tells patients to steer clear of compounded weight drugs made outside FDA oversight.
Michelle Drasin is a physician assistant in primary care at One Medical, and she sees patients of all ages. Her bio singles out perimenopausal and menopausal care as a special interest, and she says she works with hormone replacement, non-hormonal medication and lifestyle changes. One Medical's own booking system lists her expertise as menopause, and she is one of only two providers at the Woodland Hills office. Care runs through the One Medical app, with same or next-day visits either in the office or by video, and every office has a drop-in lab. The Amazon booking flow currently offers her at the Beverly Hills office rather than Woodland Hills, so a new patient should check which location she is booking.
Beyer is a Midi clinical leader and sits on the company advisory board, and she still sees patients by video. She trained in obstetrics and gynaecology, then dropped obstetrics to work on gynaecology and hormonal health only. Weight is her second focus and she holds a diplomate from the American Board of Obesity Medicine. She talks openly about gaining weight before her 50th birthday and losing 35 pounds over five months, and she uses that with patients who are struggling. Care runs through Midi only, so visits are by video and anything needing an exam or imaging goes to an outside clinician. Her page has no booking link of her own, so the Midi sign-up does not let a new patient choose her by name.
Jennifer Tagatz sees patients through Midi Health, a national virtual clinic for perimenopause and menopause, and every visit is by video. 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.
Sarah Wallis is a certified nurse-midwife and women's health nurse practitioner with twenty years in women's health, seeing patients by video through Midi Health. Her focus is health and wellness in midlife and the menopause transition. She speaks English, Spanish and Arabic and describes her care as culturally sensitive. In her own words, many of her patients have felt dismissed by a health system that does not grasp how big the changes of midlife are. She wants every patient to understand how her own body works, so she can take charge of her well-being. Midi lists her as a clinical leader and her page has no booking link of her own, so the sign-up does not let a new patient choose her by name.
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.
