Menopause Hormone Therapy (HRT) in Wellington, FL

Bioidentical hormones in Wellington: what it means

"Bioidentical" is a word compounding pharmacies often use in marketing, but what it describes is real: a hormone built like the body's own. Estradiol, the main estrogen the ovaries make before menopause, and micronized progesterone both fit that description. FDA-approved versions of both are sold by prescription at retail pharmacies.

Compounded hormones are a different thing: a pharmacy prepares them for one patient, as a cream, a capsule or a pellet. None of these is FDA-approved, and the FDA has not reviewed them for safety, effectiveness or quality before sale. In the FDA's words, it has no evidence that compounded "bioidentical hormones" are safe and effective. A 2020 National Academies review found no rigorous evidence of their safety and effectiveness.

24 OB-GYNs in the federal NPI registry give a primary practice address in Wellington: 39.0 per 100,000 residents, above the US rate of 17.8 and above Florida's 16.5, and more per resident than 79% of the 924 cities VevaMD covers. That is about 370 women aged 45 to 64 for each OB-GYN in the city, a ratio rather than a count of open appointments.

Within 10 miles of the city there are 30 OB-GYNs, and within 25 miles 293, about 18.1 per 100,000 of the 1,620,396 residents in that radius. None of this replaces your own OB-GYN or a menopause doctor you trust; VevaMD adds an online route, with a physician licensed in Florida reviewing your answers from home in Wellington.

Through VevaMD, a physician licensed in Florida decides whether hormone therapy fits you and, if so, the form: an estradiol pill, patch, cream or vaginal cream, with progesterone if you have a uterus. There are no pellets. Because the dispensing pharmacy also compounds, you can ask whether your estradiol or progesterone is an FDA-approved product. Testosterone cream for women and Bi-Est are compounded and not FDA-approved.

Then there are pellets, implanted under the skin at a clinic; compounded pellets are not FDA-approved. The Endocrine Society cites blood levels well above the expected range in women using compounded pellets. ACOG recommends FDA-approved menopause hormone therapy over compounded hormones.

Sources: FDA: Menopause · FDA: National Academies study of compounded bioidentical hormones (2020) · Endocrine Society position statement on compounded bioidentical hormones (2019) · ACOG Clinical Consensus No. 6, compounded bioidentical menopausal hormone therapy (2023) · CMS NPPES NPI full file, 2026-10-11