Menopause Specialists Who Accept Insurance in South Dakota
21 practitioners have an office in South Dakota, and 35 more can see patients here by telehealth. 35 of them are certified by the Menopause Society, and the most are in Sioux Falls, Rapid City and Spearfish.
Gretchen Dutcher sees patients through Midi Health, a national virtual menopause clinic that works by video only. She became a nurse practitioner in 2021 but has worked in women's health since 2014, in gynecology, urology and postpartum care. She says education is what she enjoys most about menopause care, and she wants women to understand what is happening in their bodies and to feel less stigma about midlife changes. She describes her approach as a partnership and says she meets each patient where she is. New patients can book with her by name through her own Midi page. Midi does not do in-person exams, so anything needing a physical exam or imaging is referred out.
Samantha Cunningham runs a solo practice that goes by My Elevated Wellness and also trades as Menopause Omaha. She treats women through perimenopause and menopause, and the only appointment she publishes is a fifty minute initial consultation for midlife care, booked as an office visit. She also sees patients by video in South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas. A first visit goes through symptom history, menstrual cycle, diet and exercise before any hormone plan is settled. For hormones she names local treatment such as vaginal estrogen alongside systemic treatment such as patches, testosterone and oral progesterone. She writes that her own passage through menopause shaped how she listens to patients, and she publishes a steady run of her own clinical articles on subjects like primary ovarian insufficiency and genitourinary syndrome of menopause.
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.
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.
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. The clinic does some gynecologic procedures in house, including endometrial biopsy, colposcopy and IUD placement, and bigger gynecologic surgery goes to a visiting OB/GYN.
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.
