Look at the byline under the headline for a moment, because in Louisiana it says more than it usually gets to say. Jeni Baker, MD, is the physician who leads women’s wellness at New Genesis Vitality. Every page this practice publishes about menopause passes through her review. On every other page like this one, the visits themselves are conducted by other licensed clinicians. In Louisiana, she holds an active medical license, and she sees Louisiana patients herself.
So here is what this page is offering, stated without decoration. If you are a woman in Louisiana somewhere in the perimenopause-to-menopause years, watching your weight climb on the same meals and the same effort that once kept it level, you can bring that problem by video to a physician who leads the practice’s women’s health content, at published prices, with lab work first. The doctor who wrote the standard can be the doctor who applies it to you.
Estrogen has a hand in deciding where your body banks its energy. As it declines, deposits concentrate at the waist, often while the number on the scale drifts only a little. Insulin does its job less efficiently across the same years, so an ordinary dinner is banked as fat more readily than it once was. Muscle, the most metabolically expensive tissue you own, thins with midlife, and the calories you burn doing nothing at all quietly decline with it. Sleep runs shallower and more broken, and appetite signaling reads that as a reason to ask for more. Four separate ledger entries, all moving the same direction, none of them entered by you.
The research record backs the lived experience. A 2019 analysis of the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN) data, published in JCI Insight, tracked women through the transition directly and found the pattern in the numbers: gains in fat mass and losses in lean mass that outrun what aging by itself would produce. The Menopause Society calls midlife weight gain the product of hormonal, physical, and lifestyle changes acting together, not a simple failure of willpower.
Ledger entries can be read, and what can be read can be treated as medicine.
Menopause weight care in Louisiana is medical treatment, by video, for the changes in weight and body composition that come with the menopause transition, provided under Louisiana licensure to women located in the state. Lab work drawn at a Louisiana Quest location comes first; a video consultation with a Louisiana-licensed physician comes second; and the resulting plan, which may include GLP-1 class medication where medically appropriate, is re-examined at each follow-up as new labs come in. Prices are published before any of it starts.
Most menopause care online is written by one set of people and delivered by another, and that gap is where women get lost. Louisiana closes it at this practice. Jeni Baker, MD, Board-Certified Emergency Medicine Physician and The Women’s Vitality Physician, reviewed this page in her role as our women’s health lead, and she treats Louisiana patients directly under her Louisiana license. The clinician measuring your labs against your story can be the same physician who set the standard those labs are measured by.
She is not alone here. Jeffrey McWilliams, MD, Board-Certified Emergency Medicine physician and Telehealth Innovator, also treats Louisiana patients, and the booking flow names your physician before you commit to anything. And because Dr. Baker practices in Louisiana, a related door is open in this state: hormone optimization is a distinct care area she delivers for Louisiana patients, if your labs and your goals ever point that way.
Panels covering metabolic markers, thyroid function, hormone levels, and related measurements start at $99 and are ordered during your consultation. That panel price covers everything the labs involve: Quest performs the draw, your provider reviews the results, and no separate invoice follows. Quest has draw locations throughout Louisiana, so the trip is short from Shreveport, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, or anywhere between. If another clinician has drawn your blood recently, those results can stand in: bring them, and when they are usable you will not pay to duplicate them. Details sit on our lab testing page.
Your initial consultation is about 30 minutes by video with a Louisiana-licensed physician, with evening and weekend slots available. The conversation covers your sleep, your symptoms, and what you have already worn out trying, because those years of effort are clinical information, not failed homework.
Where your results and your history support it, your physician may recommend our Metabolic Correction program using GLP-1 class medication. Any medication is billed separately at the pharmacy’s pass-through price and quoted to you before it is prescribed, so you say yes or no to a known figure. And if the labs argue against medication, you will hear that too; the plan follows the evidence, not the menu.
Follow-up visits are $99, run about 15 minutes, and hold the plan against your newest labs and your actual life. If a prescription needs renewing between appointments, the charge is a flat $10, and it appears again in the fee list below.
The consultation costs $129 to start and $99 per follow-up under the Metabolic Correction (GLP-1) program. Lab panels begin at $99. Medication is never bundled into a fee: it is quoted at the pharmacy’s pass-through price and filled only with your approval. The between-appointment refill charge is the flat $10 described above. Everything is cash-pay with no insurance involved, and superbills are available if you want to seek HSA or FSA reimbursement. Our pricing page repeats every figure in one place. And when the question grows past weight into the rest of midlife health, our menopause metabolic reset program widens the same approach.
New Genesis Vitality is a physician-led telehealth practice staffed by US Board-Certified Physicians and Practitioners with over 80 years of combined experience. In Louisiana, your care is with Jeni Baker, MD, or Jeffrey McWilliams, MD, both Board-Certified in Emergency Medicine, both licensed in Louisiana, both seeing patients entirely by video. The practice has no physical office anywhere; visits happen from home, and only the blood draw itself happens in person, at a Quest location you choose. The rest of what we do in the state is on our Louisiana telehealth page.
Louisiana has never lacked advice for women in midlife. What it lacked was a shorter path between the person who understands this stage and the person living it. That path is now two clicks long: a physician licensed in your state, the standard-setter for how this practice treats menopause, reachable from your own front porch on a weekday evening.
When you are ready, book a consultation with a Louisiana-licensed physician. Come with your history, your lab results if you have them, and every question you have been saving. All three will be used.
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