River Oaks Skin Institute
About River Oaks Skin Institute
River Oaks Skin Institute at 3700 Greenbriar Dr in Houston is a physician-led aesthetic practice that also runs a medical weight loss program using semaglutide, the GLP-1 medication behind drugs like Ozempic. If cost is your first question, the site does not answer it: no treatment or program price is published. What it does offer is a stated complimentary, in-depth initial consultation, which is a reasonable no-cost way to get pricing and a plan.
The practice names its team, which helps if you want to know who is treating you. Dr. Phi Nguyen, MD, leads it, and the staff includes Veronica Alaniz (MSN, APRN, NP-C), Laura (Roby) Macko (RN, BSN, CANS), Briana Balderas (BSN, RN), Briana DeHaro (LE), Carla Bandini, and Danielle Dominguez. The site mentions "more than 20 years of experience in aesthetic plastic surgery," but that describes Dr. Nguyen's own career rather than the clinic's founding date, so read it as a credential note, not a company age.
The service menu is aesthetics-forward. Alongside medical weight loss you will find dermal fillers, Sculptra, Radiesse, neuromodulators, microneedling, Hydrafacial, dermaplaning, a VI chemical peel, PDGF+ (platelet-derived growth factor), and lipo dissolve. The wrinkle-relaxer and injectable medications named are Botox, Dysport, Daxxify, and Jeuveau. For weight loss specifically, semaglutide is the drug called out.
The gaps are straightforward. There is no published dollar price for any treatment or for the weight loss program; only the free consultation is stated, so you will get numbers by going in or calling. Insurance is not addressed, which fits a cash-pay practice, so expect to pay out of pocket unless told otherwise. Telehealth is not mentioned, and a defined service area beyond the Houston location is not stated.
For a weight loss searcher, the appealing part here is the combination of a named physician, a clearly stated medication (semaglutide), and a free first consultation, which together make it low-risk to get a quote and see whether the fit is right. The thing to nail down at that consultation is what a month of the program actually includes: the medication, lab work, and follow-up visits can be bundled or billed separately, and that changes the real cost a lot.
The posted hours are Monday through Thursday 9 am to 5 pm, Friday 9 am to 4 pm, and closed Saturday and Sunday. Call within those windows to book the complimentary consultation and to ask, specifically, for the total monthly cost of the semaglutide program and what it covers.
Sources: rosihtx.com.