Is Your Menopause Care Covered? What Insurance Companies Don’t Tell You

What do women need to know about menopause care, menopause treatment, insurance coverage and their rights in the workplace?

Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, attorney, women’s health advocate and author of When in Menopause, joins me to talk about the systems surrounding perimenopause and menopause that most of us never think about until we need them.

Jennifer has spent years fighting for women, from helping lead the movement to end the tampon tax to advocating for better menopause care, research, treatment access and workplace protections. In this conversation, we break down what is changing, where women are still falling through the cracks and what we can actually do about it.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

- Why menopause care and treatment still aren’t uniformly covered by health insurance

- Why vaginal estrogen isn’t currently covered by Medicare

- What states are doing to expand access to menopause treatment

- What rights women actually have when it comes to menopause in the workplace

- Why workplace accommodations without discrimination protections can be complicated

- What to consider before disclosing menopause symptoms at work

- How to better advocate for yourself in the doctor’s office

- How to navigate the explosion of menopause supplements, creams and products being marketed to women

- Why Jennifer believes better care, education, research and treatment access could make a bigger difference than workplace accommodations alone

- How women can get involved in menopause advocacy without becoming policy experts

This is one of those conversations that makes you realize how much of the menopause experience is shaped by systems most women have never been taught to think about. The more we understand how they work, the better equipped we are to ask for what we need.

Learn more about menopause advocacy, policy, and how to drive change ⁠HERE⁠

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