Menopause Specialists Who Accept Medicare in Virginia
140 practitioners have an office in Virginia, and 134 more can see patients here by telehealth. 180 of them are certified by the Menopause Society, and the most are in Richmond, Virginia Beach and Fairfax.
Dr. Makkiya runs a small gynecology practice in Vienna where menopause and sexual health are one of four main areas of care. She has a particular interest in helping cancer survivors, including women after breast cancer, manage menopause symptoms and sexual health. She sits on a global committee of the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health. She is also a gynecologic surgeon who does vaginal and robotic hysterectomy and treats prolapse and urinary incontinence, so one doctor can cover a lot of midlife care. New patients can book online through the practice portal, and video visits are offered through the same system. She speaks English and Arabic.
Stateline Health is a Martinsville cardiology and vein practice that also runs a small internal medicine side, and Karen Garrett is the provider there who takes care of menopause. She co-founded the practice in 2017 with the cardiologist and has been a PA since 1999, starting her career in women's health. She writes that she is living through menopause herself, and that she wants women to get accurate current information and understand their treatment options. Her internal medicine visits also cover thyroid disease, blood pressure, diabetes and contraception, and the practice runs a cash pay weight loss program using compounded semaglutide and tirzepatide. New patient applications for internal medicine are paused right now, although the practice is still taking new cardiology and imaging patients.
Michelle Evans is one of two clinicians at the Endocrine and Diabetes Center, a small endocrinology and diabetes practice in Vienna. Most of her work is diabetes and obesity care, and she holds an advanced diabetes management certification alongside her menopause one. The practice's hormone therapy page takes a strong pro-estrogen position and argues that the breast cancer risk has been overstated. It says breast cancer survivors can take hormone therapy under a doctor's supervision, and it rejects the old advice to use the lowest dose for the shortest time. For low sexual desire after menopause it uses a small daily dose of an FDA-approved testosterone gel made for men, and it states plainly that it does not recommend compounded testosterone. New patients book by phone and bring in a completed registration packet and a menopause health questionnaire they download from the site.
Dr. Hammoud runs her own small gynecology practice in Annandale, and menopause care is one of its named services. She lists hormone replacement among her areas of expertise. For women with severe or complex symptoms she also looks at bone health, heart risk, mood and urinary problems. She is a minimally invasive surgeon and does office hysteroscopy, so gynecologic procedures can be handled in the same practice. The office does no obstetrics, and she speaks Arabic and French as well as English. Visits can be in person or by video.
Capital Women's Care DC is a group OB-GYN practice near Foggy Bottom, and Dr. Bajaj is the managing partner of the Washington office. She spent nearly two decades doing both obstetrics and gynecology, then stopped obstetrics in 2022 to practice gynecology only, with perimenopause and menopause as her focus. She says she wants to close the knowledge gap around hormone replacement therapy, and she writes publicly about women's health on a site of her own. You book online or by phone, and appointments can be in person or by video. Alongside menopause care the office does in-office procedures and minimally invasive gyn surgery, so a woman who needs both can stay in one place. Worth knowing is that the practice says an annual well-woman visit with the doctor of your choice usually takes one to three months to get.
Virginia Heart is a large Northern Virginia cardiology group and Dr. Riggs works in its sleep center rather than on the cardiology side. She handles insomnia, sleep apnea, restless legs, narcolepsy and vasomotor symptoms, and she is board certified in sleep medicine as well as pulmonary and critical care. Her stated special interest is women's sleep health during the menopause transition and around pregnancy. Nothing on the site says she prescribes hormone therapy, so the care she lists is sleep focused. New patients call the main scheduling line and fill in health history and registration forms ahead of the first visit, and the office files insurance claims for you. Before returning to Virginia she worked as a critical care attending in Brooklyn and Manhattan intensive care units at the height of the COVID pandemic.
A nurse-practitioner-owned primary care and wellness practice in Fairfax, founded in 2012, with a second nurse practitioner and a small clinical team. Hormone care is aimed at midlife women from perimenopause through menopause and begins with testing, in-office blood work plus saliva or urine panels, before a plan that may combine nutrition, lifestyle work, herbal remedies, bioidentical topicals or hormone pellets. It sits inside a full primary care and women's health practice covering gynecological exams, contraception, urinary incontinence, thyroid disease and medical weight management, with visits in person or by video.
Caitlin Givens is one of two providers at Takoma Park Gynecology, a small woman-owned gynecology practice run by nurse-midwives. The practice covers care from adolescence through menopause and beyond, and it does no pregnancy care. A new patient can book with her online, either as a full new patient visit with an exam or as a menopause consultation that is a conversation only. She prescribes FDA-approved hormone therapy, including estrogen, progesterone and testosterone, and uses compounded hormones only when a manufactured product is unavailable or a poor fit. Beyond menopause she works in sexual medicine and chronic vulvar conditions, and the practice also handles bone health and prescription weight management. Her interest in women's health began as a Peace Corps volunteer in northern Senegal, and she teaches nurse-midwifery and women's health students at Georgetown.
Dr. Balderston sees patients at Gyn Wellness Center, a gynecology only practice with four offices around Hampton Roads, and her office is the First Colonial one in Virginia Beach. She moved there from Coastal Gynecology, which no longer lists her. Her own page puts the menopausal transition, hormone therapy and sexual health at the center of her work, and she is the only clinician at the practice who holds the Menopause Society certification. She is also the practice's surgeon, and the site says she is one of the first providers in the region to offer vNOTES, a vaginal procedure it says brings less pain and a faster recovery. New patients are usually seen within two days, and a video visit can be booked as a first appointment. The practice made a point of starting to take Medicaid because most gynecologists in the area do not.
Tidewater Physicians for Women is an obstetrics and gynecology group of eighteen providers with offices in Virginia Beach and Norfolk, and Hallberg is one of its women's health nurse practitioners. The practice's own online scheduler prints a focus area of menopause on Hallberg's listing and on nobody else's. Its menopause page says the team handles hormone replacement therapy, preventive care and changes in sexual function, and it names nurse practitioners alongside the physicians as the people who do that work. Hallberg's own bio points to work with adolescents and to colposcopy, and to a role as president of the Virginia Council of Nurse Practitioners. The group also keeps a licensed clinical social worker on staff who sees patients for problems like depression during menopause, which is unusual in a gynecology office. Robotic surgery is reserved for a few named physicians, and Hallberg's appointments are booked by phone rather than through the online calendar.
Jo'Ann Jackson is an obstetrician gynecologist at Reiter, Hill & Johnson of Advantia, a women's health group with offices in Washington and Northern Virginia. She joined the practice in 2006 and is now one of its physician managers, and she sees patients at the Washington and Falls Church offices. Her own provider page names menopause care and hormone replacement therapy, which most of her colleagues' pages do not. Along with her Menopause Society certification she holds the Heather Hirsch Academy hormone therapy certification that Advantia put several of its clinicians through, and she is a practising physician member of the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health. The practice menopause page covers hormone therapy, vaginal hormonal medication and non hormonal options such as low dose antidepressants. New patients self schedule online and fill in a health history in the portal before the first visit, and the Washington office runs Saturday morning clinics twice a month.
Amanda Needham is a women's health nurse practitioner at Vanderbilt's Columbia women's health office, and she also sees patients at the Lawrenceburg location. Her care runs through Vanderbilt's gynecology service, which treats menopause and hormone disorders and offers hormone replacement therapy. Her own listed focus is general gynecology, annual exams and menstrual cycle problems, and she carries a share of the office's obstetric work. She trained as a nurse practitioner at Vanderbilt's own school of nursing in 2000 and added a certification in electronic fetal monitoring in 2016. New patients can book her online through the Vanderbilt patient portal. Vanderbilt publishes her patient survey comments in full, praise and complaints alike, so you can read how other women found her before you book.
