Improving Health Care Benefits for Menopause

Key considerations and prompts to help you start a conversation with your provider and champion the right care for your team.

Untreated menopause symptoms lead to higher health care spending, missed workdays, and even talent loss, often at the height of women's careers. But many women struggle to find effective treatment, due to misinformation, gaps in medical training, and limits on what insurance will cover.

"Improving Health Care Benefits for Menopause" is a step-by-step guide to help HR and benefits leaders advocate for effective care for their employees. Inside, you’ll find ready-to-use questions to ask your insurer or pharmacy benefits manager (PBM), key factors to look for in coverage, and a sample message to help you start the conversation.

This guide is part of our Menopause in the Workplace toolkit, a suite of practical resources designed to help companies create menopause-friendly workplaces.

In addition to this guide, the free toolkit includes:

✅ Menopause PulseCheck: How Menopause-Friendly Is Your Workplace?
Assess how your company's menopause support stacks up across culture, policy, and benefits — and walk away with personalized recommendations for making your company more menopause-friendly.

📣 Empowering Conversations About Menopause
Learn how to break the silence and start informed, supportive conversations that make menopause visible at work.

🧩 Naming and Shaping Your Menopause Strategy
You may already have the building blocks for menopause support; learn how to recognize and adapt existing benefits.

You can visit HAA's Women's Health at Work page to explore these tools and more resources and articles to help you better support employees through every stage of life, including menopause.

We’d love to hear how you're using these free tools! Drop us a line at hello@healthaction.org to let us know how they're working for you and your team.