Menopause Specialists Who Accept Medicare in Illinois
232 practitioners have an office in Illinois, and 89 more can see patients here by telehealth. 211 of them are certified by the Menopause Society, and the most are in Chicago, Lake Forest and Elmhurst.
Takes Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield +3 · first visit $400
Dr. Milhouse is a urologist with fellowship training in urogynecology and pelvic surgery who runs a menopause and hormone practice alongside her pelvic floor and sexual health work. She prescribes menopause hormone therapy, testosterone for women, and BioTE compounded hormone pellets placed in the office. Her approach is shaped by the bladder and sexual side of menopause, so she also treats leaking, prolapse, recurrent infections and painful sex in the same clinic. Visits happen in person in the Gold Coast or Deer Park, or by video. She is widely known online as Your Favorite Urologist and starred in the TLC show Dr. Down Below. Much of the practice's work is cosmetic genital procedures for women and men.
Erie Family Health Centers is a community health center network in Chicago, and Carlson is one of the OB/GYN physicians at its West Town site on Superior Street. She did her residency at the University of Illinois in Chicago and has been seeing Erie patients since 2011. Erie's women's health care runs from adolescence through the reproductive years to menopause and beyond, and midlife and menopause support sits on the same service list as contraception, abnormal bleeding and gynecologic surgery. New patients book by phone and fill in an intake form before the first visit, and video visits become an option once you are an established Erie patient. Erie says no one is turned away because of their ability to pay, and front desk staff will go through an income-based discount with patients who are uninsured or carry a high deductible. An Erie provider is on call around the clock, and each site keeps some slots open for same day urgent visits.
Dr. Barthel practices at Midwest Center for Women's HealthCare, a large Illinois OB/GYN group with offices across the Chicago suburbs. She still does full obstetric care and robotic gynecologic surgery, with hundreds of robotic cases since 2007 and a focus on minimally invasive hysterectomy. Menopause is a newer part of her work, and she became a Menopause Society certified practitioner in 2026. The practice treats perimenopausal and menopausal symptoms and offers hormone replacement therapy, and menopause visits can be done by video as well as in the office. She sees patients at the Elgin and South Elgin offices and delivers at a hospital in Elgin. She speaks openly about having both of her daughters through IVF, which shapes how she cares for patients dealing with infertility.
Katy Wehrmann is a certified nurse midwife with Endeavor Health Medical Group, seeing patients at offices in Oak Park and Elmhurst. She has worked in women's health since 2005 and as a midwife since 2013, covering pregnancy and birth, postpartum care, family planning, annual exams and midlife care. Her midlife visits are for women whose perimenopause or menopause changes have become disruptive, and she works through the options with each patient rather than handing down a plan. She trained in FDA-approved hormone therapy for perimenopause and menopause through the Heather Hirsch Academy, and compares hormone therapy with non-hormonal choices when she counsels. New patients can book a visit online through her provider page at the health system or through the patient portal. She describes her care as a partnership and says her aim is for patients to feel seen and heard.
Takes Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield +16 · from $250/mo
Westmoreland ObGyn Associates is a long established two office OB-GYN group on the North Shore, in Lake Bluff and Grayslake, and Dr. London has practised there for more than two decades. The practice treats menopause symptoms with lifestyle changes, targeted prescription medication and hormone replacement therapy, and its own prescription policy says routine hormone replacement therapy is written at annual visits for a twelve month supply. Dr. London is one of only two doctors at the practice who perform the MonaLisa Touch, a fractional CO2 laser for vaginal atrophy, and the practice will take someone for that treatment even if they see a different gynecologist. Dr. London's stated special interests are cervical dysplasia, minimally invasive treatment of menstrual irregularities, peri and postmenopausal hormonal conditions, and vaginal and vulvar atrophy. The group also sells an optional concierge membership called Together Plus, run with a virtual wellness team, which buys longer visits and round the clock texting but does not cover medication. New patients book online through the practice's own scheduling page, which publishes open slots by provider.
Women for Women is a small obstetrics and gynecology practice in Normal, in a medical office building on the Carle BroMenn hospital campus, and Dr. Haas is one of the two physicians the practice is named for. She sees women across the whole span of gynecologic care, from a first exam and contraception through pregnancy and into menopause and the years after. What sets her apart inside the practice is surgery, since she holds a 2022 certification in minimally invasive gynecological surgery that the practice says marks clinicians who devote a significant share of their work to operating through small incisions. The gynecology list runs from hysterectomy, myomectomy and endometrial ablation through to robotic procedures, and menopause management sits among those services. She earned her menopause certification in 2025, the same year her partner at the practice did. She grew up in Bloomington and trained in Peoria, and the practice says she was glad to come back to her home community to practice.
Dr. Tran is an internist who co-runs the CGH Menopause and Sexual Health Clinic with Dr. Marcia Jones, a family physician who is also Menopause Society certified. The clinic is on the upper level of CGH's downtown Sterling office and works by appointment, in person or by video. Sexual health is as much the point here as hot flashes. The reasons the clinic lists for coming in include painful sex, low libido and recurrent urinary tract infections. Tran also belongs to the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health. She and Jones have taken questions from the community in public Facebook Live sessions for the hospital, one on the stages of menopause and one on sex and intimacy in midlife.
Genny Petersen is one of four nurse practitioners at Heart of Illinois OB-GYN, a Bloomington obstetrics and gynecology practice that also has two physicians. She joined the office in 2007, is board certified as a family nurse practitioner, and is the only clinician on the team whose bio names menopause, saying she has an interest in the care of women in the menopausal stage of life. The practice lists menopause among its health and well-being services and says it is experienced in helping women through the transition, but it names no treatment it uses, so what she prescribes is not published. The minimally invasive surgery the group advertises is assigned by name to its two physicians, and the pregnancy prevention page says the doctors handle that, so neither is described as her work. Visits can be done in the office or by video with a doctor or a nurse practitioner, and new patients complete a pre-registration form before a first appointment. She goes by Genny on the practice site and is available for speaking engagements.
Dr. Dunne is an internal medicine physician in the Advocate Medical Group office in Oswego, and she sees adults only. Her profile lists depression, generalized anxiety disorder and high blood pressure as clinical interests, with her menopause certification named alongside them. The page does not say anything more about how she approaches hormones or what menopause care looks like with her. She speaks Spanish as well as English. Visits are in person at the Templeton Drive office, and established patients book online through the Advocate LiveWell portal. Her panel is closed right now, and the booking tool says plainly that she cannot take new patients.
Women for Women is a small obstetrics and gynecology practice in Normal, in Medical Office Building 1 on the Carle BroMenn campus, and Dr. Thornton is the first of the two physicians the practice is named for. She earned her medical degree at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago and finished her internship and residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in 1999, and the practice says she has been a prominent physician in the Bloomington Normal area since early 2000. She is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and a Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and she earned her menopause certification in 2025, the same year her partner at the practice did. Her work spans the whole range of gynecologic care, from a first exam and contraception through pregnancy and into menopause and the years after, and menopause management sits on the practice list of gynecologic services. The practice says its board certified physicians are specially trained in minimally invasive gynecologic procedures, and its own patient booklet names her and her partner as the two physicians who hold hospital privileges and perform procedures. The practice lists menopause management as a service but does not name a single hormone medication anywhere on its site or on any of its patient forms.
