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.
Sarah Noble is a family nurse practitioner who works in the obstetrics and gynecology department of Sutter East Bay Medical Group. She sees patients at two East Bay offices, one in Brentwood and one in Antioch, on weekdays. New patients can book online through My Health Online, Sutter's patient portal, which is also how appointments and messages are handled afterwards. Video visits are open only to people who are already her patients, so a first appointment has to be in person. Sutter's provider page carries no bio and does not say which conditions she treats or whether she prescribes hormone therapy.
She practices in the obstetrics and gynecology group at Sansum Medical Group Santa Barbara, which is part of Sutter Health. Her office is the Pueblo Care Complex on West Pueblo Street, open weekdays from 7am to 6pm and closed on weekends. Her work centers on perimenopause and menopause, with sexual health and urogenital health alongside it. She trained at Georgetown University School of Nursing. Her panel is closed right now, and the only route the group shows is the My Health Online portal for women who have already seen her. Visits are in person at that one office, and the group publishes nothing about how a first appointment runs or what she prescribes.
Dandamudi practices at Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group's East Santa Clara Care Center and sees adults only. Most of her listed work is general internal medicine, things like annual physicals, blood pressure and diabetes, with menopause care alongside it. She is board certified in obesity medicine, and that shapes what she says she focuses on in menopause. Her stated interests are weight gain, sexual dysfunction, bone health, and menopause care for cancer survivors. Her panel is closed to new patients, and the people she already sees schedule visits through Sutter's My Health Online portal, where video visits are an option. She writes that she wants to know patients as a whole person and to build long term relationships rather than fix one problem at a time.
Dr. Maayah is an OB-GYN with Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group and sees patients at the Mills-Peninsula Family Birth Center in Burlingame and at a second office in Daly City. Her practice covers all of women's health, from a teenager's first periods through pregnancy and childbirth and on into perimenopause and menopause. She names hormone therapy, bioidentical hormones and post-menopausal treatment among what she does, and a large share of her listed work is gynecologic surgery. Minimally invasive surgery is her stated professional interest, because she wants women back to their usual routine with little recovery time. Visits are in person only, and a new patient starts by calling the office rather than booking online. She speaks fluent Hindi and Urdu along with conversational Spanish, and she is a long distance runner outside of work.
Kasianchuk is a registered dietitian at Gennev, a virtual menopause clinic, so her work is nutrition and lifestyle counseling rather than prescribing. Gennev's doctors handle medication and hormone therapy, and she works alongside them with shared notes in the patient record. Her own page names weight management, bone health and cardiovascular health as her areas, along with sports nutrition and exercise physiology. A first visit with her runs 50 to 55 minutes and follow-ups run 30 to 40 minutes, usually every two or three weeks for at least three months, with text support in between. She also runs Gennev's lifestyle care program as its senior director of lifestyle care. Gennev's weight management track starts with the dietitian rather than the doctor and you can self-refer into it, while nutrition care in the general menopause track comes as a referral from your first doctor visit.
Dr. de Edwards is a general obstetrician-gynecologist who says she has practiced gynecology since 1983. Menopause management and female sexuality are the two areas she names as her subspecialties. She also does routine gynecology and pregnancy care with delivery, so this is not a menopause-only office. It is her own small practice in the Gladstone Medical Park building in Pittsburg. Her site does not say which menopause treatments she prescribes. She writes short blog posts on menopause symptoms and on early menopause after chemotherapy, radiation or removal of the ovaries.
TCC Family Health is a community health center group with thirteen sites around Long Beach and the surrounding area, and it has been running since 1939. The name is misleading. It started with children but now sees patients of every age, and its services include OB/GYN care, family planning and menopause care alongside adult and senior medicine. The Bellflower health center is one of its sites. Care is open to anyone and the group says no one is turned away because they cannot pay, with a sliding fee discount for the uninsured. New patients start by calling the appointment line or walking into any location, and video and phone visits are available.
Dr. Sandhu runs a solo private practice in downtown Lafayette, where she is the only clinician and three staff members handle the front and back office. She does both obstetrics and gynecology, delivers at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, and says she personally attends more than 90 percent of her patients' births. Menopause sits in her general gynecology list next to contraception, abnormal bleeding and pelvic pain, and no page on the site names a hormone medicine. The treatment she writes about most for midlife symptoms is the MonaLisa Touch laser, which she offers to women who cannot use estrogen or would rather not. She brought robotic gynecologic surgery to the John Muir network and keeps Wednesdays and Fridays clear for surgery and procedures. The office is fragrance free and asks patients to arrange childcare before they come in.
Anna Bobba is a board-certified OB-GYN with more than 20 years of experience. Her solo practice in Beverly Hills covers menopause and perimenopause, weight and metabolic health, and lifestyle medicine. She says she started it after watching women get one-size-fits-all treatment for menopause and weight problems. Hormone therapy and non-hormonal options are both offered, and weight care includes FDA-approved medications and a body composition analysis. Visits can be in person, by video, as house calls, or as a concierge service. The site does not publish prices, insurance or online booking, so a new patient starts with a consult by phone or email.
Winston is a board certified obstetrician gynaecologist at Boston Medical Center. She sees patients at two sites, the main Boston campus on Harrison Avenue and BMC Brighton. Her hospital listing places her in obstetrics and gynaecology along with labour, delivery and postpartum care, so her published work includes deliveries and not only office gynaecology. Boston Medical Center publishes nothing about menopause, perimenopause or hormone therapy for her, and her profile carries no specialties list at all, while a colleague at the same Harrison Avenue office does list menopause. Her menopause certification from The Menopause Society is current, but her employer's site gives no sign that she offers menopause care. She trained in obstetrics and gynaecology at Marshall University in West Virginia after earning her osteopathic degree in Tennessee.
