Menopause Specialists Who Accept Medicare in Washington
186 practitioners have an office in Washington, and 115 more can see patients here by telehealth. 195 of them are certified by the Menopause Society, and the most are in Seattle, Vancouver and Olympia.
Lyons Health and Wellness is a small clinic in the Colorado foothills town Megan Foreman comes from, and she started it after leaving corporate healthcare. It is a primary care practice as well as a hormone practice, so the clinician treating your perimenopause also manages things like thyroid and cholesterol. A first visit covers your history along with sleep, food and exercise, and labs are ordered at the end so the results can be gone over at the follow-up. The clinic prefers Biote pellets and explains why it favors them over daily creams and pills, though patches, tablets and creams are options, and it uses compounding pharmacies when a dose needs to be precise. Prescriptions go to the pharmacy you choose instead of being sold in the office, and hormone care does not require a membership. Before opening the clinic Foreman ran the disordered eating team at CU Boulder, and the practice does weight and metabolic care alongside hormones.
Kate Behning runs a solo gynecology practice in downtown Seattle that she opened after leaving a healthcare corporation over its limits on abortion care. She has held Menopause Society certification since 2013 and follows its guidance closely, so she prescribes standard hormone therapy but not compounded hormones or pellets. Visits happen in her office or virtually by video, phone or portal message. She is not a primary care provider and asks patients to keep one for non-gynecologic care and routine screening labs. A longer menopause consultation can be added to an annual exam but is billed as a separate visit. She describes her style as plain explanations with no upselling of trendy hormone treatments.
Bevin Meyer is a family nurse practitioner at Vancouver Clinic's Columbia Tech Center office in east Vancouver, seeing patients of all ages as a primary care provider. Her own profile names hormonal health and metabolic wellness among her clinical interests and says she is particularly passionate about supporting women through perimenopause. The clinic publishes nothing about which hormone treatments she prescribes, and no provider profile anywhere on its site names a specific therapy. She spent 11 years in hospital nursing before qualifying as a nurse practitioner. New patients can book with her through the clinic's MyChart online scheduling, and unlike most of her family medicine colleagues she is not listed for video visits. Her profile mentions she gardens, mountain bikes and trail runs, and that she recently finished her first trail marathon in Moab.
Dr. Ellingson is a family physician at Three Rivers Family Medicine, the rural health clinic attached to Three Rivers Hospital in Brewster. She has worked in North Central Washington since 2002, and for years that meant emergency shifts, deliveries, cesarean sections and hospital inpatients alongside clinic visits. She sees newborns through adults, and the hospital says she has found a niche in treating women through perimenopause and after menopause. On her clinician page at a Seattle menopause practice she describes ten years of working with women in perimenopause and postmenopause using bioidentical hormone therapy. She speaks Spanish fluently and has cared for a large Spanish speaking population her whole career. She is also the hospital's medical staff president and medical director of a children's foundation in Lesotho.
Dr. Williams is managing partner of The Oregon Clinic's all women obstetrics and gynecology office on the Legacy Emanuel hospital campus in north Portland. She joined The Oregon Clinic in 2014 when her own group Everywoman's Health merged into it. Her listed areas of focus include menopause and hormone replacement therapy including bioidentical, alongside full spectrum obstetrics, vulvar and vaginal dermatology, infertility and minimally invasive surgery. She is board certified in integrative medicine as well as obstetrics and gynecology, and she has training in functional medicine, acupuncture and homeopathy. The office keeps Saturday hours and takes new patients without a referral, and established patients can book some visits themselves in the clinic portal. She is a certified Pilates and GYROTONIC instructor and speaks fluent Spanish.
Tara Roeder is a nurse practitioner in primary care at Vancouver Clinic's Columbia Tech Center location, and she sees adults through the Internal Medicine department. Her clinic profile says she has specialized training in sexual health and menopausal management, and she is certified by the Menopause Society. The profile does not say which treatments she uses, and Vancouver Clinic publishes no treatment detail for any individual clinician. She also offers medication-assisted treatment for substance use disorders, and she says she is interested in preventing and managing cardiovascular disease. Before nursing she worked as a marine and geoscientist studying how the Himalayas formed. Her page says she is not accepting new patients right now, and it also shows that virtual appointments are available.
