Careaga Plastic Surgery
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 79/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #4 of 24 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
79/100
coverage 100% (threshold 75%)
Summary
Plastic surgery practice on Alhambra Circle in Coral Gables with its own registered office-surgery suite. The founding surgeon is named with his role and tied to this address; his specialist certification and medical licence were matched by name in the official registers, and the office-surgery registration is recorded at this address under the practice name.
Axis by axis
rubric value 1–5 · ? could not verify (no points, not a negative finding) · — not applicable: this country has no register of that class · OFF official register · SEC secondary source
| Axis | Finding (rubric anchor) | Value | Source class | Weight | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M1 | Specialist certification of the responsible physician Found, status current; the registered specialty matches what this physician advertises. ABMS Certification Matters: Daniel Eduardo Careaga, MD, currently certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, specialty Plastic Surgery, first certified 2014, most recent certification 2024, status Certified; reported location Coral Gables, FL. The same profile carries a second block, American Board of Surgery, specialty Surgery, status No longer certified. [cm] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. The practice names the responsible physician with role on its own pages and ties that physician to this address; the same address is the address of record on the physician licence in the state register. [site] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Matched by name (surname stem and given name or initial; a second identifier where the name is ambiguous). Florida MQA licence ME105769, CAREAGA, DANIEL EDUARDO, Medical Doctor, Clear/Active, address of record 220 Alhambra Circle 1st Floor, Coral Gables, matching this address; matched by name search. Discipline on File No, Public Complaint No. [mqa] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Record found: name, address and status match. Florida Office Surgery Registration OSR1379, registered to LeJeune Plastic Surgery doing business as Careaga Plastic Surgery, License Status Clear, address of record 220 Alhambra Cir. Suite 260, Coral Gables FL 33134; trading name, address and status match this location. [mqa] |
OFF | 10 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability Only a brand, without a legal form and without a responsible person. Whatever we find ourselves is shown on the profile as a fact and does not raise this cell. The pages loaded on 2026-09-20 (home, our practice, physician profile, facility, consultation, post-operative instructions, contact, financing, privacy policy, HIPAA notice, terms of use) carry the trading name only; no company name with a legal form and no registration number are published, so the record is scored on the brand. [site] [sunbiz] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Logos without numbers. The site names the certifying boards of its founding surgeon, but publishes no licence number, no office-surgery registration number and no company registration number. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty One or two soft superlatives or non-absolute safety promises. Lexicon scan of the pages loaded on 2026-09-20 (home, our practice, physician profile, facility, consultation, post-operative instructions, contact, financing, privacy policy, HIPAA notice, terms of use): one unsourced superlative heading on the home page, quoted below; no outcome or safety guarantee and no systematic pattern were found. [site] Top Plastic Surgeons in Coral Gables, Miami |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency All load-bearing fields agree. Mechanical comparison of 3 language fronts (en, es, x-español) on 2026-09-20: every matched physician name, phone number and published number appears on every front. [fronts] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M9 | Patient documents Two or three. Pages loaded on 2026-09-20: a patient consultation form is described on the consultation page, a post-operative instructions page is published, and a HIPAA notice of privacy practices is published; no statement of procedure risks and no revision policy were found. [site] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-20 |
Score ceilings
No ceiling applies. We never apply one on 'not found' alone.
Holds
No hold on this profile.
Inclusion policy
Four mechanical conditions. The first three decide whether a clinic is listed at all; the fourth decides whether it can be scored.
| Identifiable: live public surface + working in-country contact | verified yes [site] |
|---|---|
| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site] |
Who is responsible
Named physicians and the legal entity, as published and as matched in the registers. A missing number is a statement about disclosure, not about licensing.
| Physician | Role | Register ID |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Daniel Careaga [site] [cm] [mqa] | Board-certified plastic surgeon, practice founder | ME105769 |
| Dr. Rafael Ramos [site] | Plastic surgeon | not published |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
What we could not verify
Every applicable axis holds a sourced value.
Contact details
| Website | https://careagaplasticsurgery.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | 305.960.7511 |
| Address | 220 Alhambra Circle, First Floor, Coral Gables, FL 33134 |
| City | Coral Gables |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://careagaplasticsurgery.com/ | clinic's own site | physician name/role, address, phone, procedure menu, credential statements, patient-document pages, marketing text | 20 September 2026 |
| cm | https://www.certificationmatters.org/practitioner/?crtmat_pid=89432… | official register | GET https://www.certificationmatters.org/find-my-doctor/?dsearch=1&lname=Careaga&fname=Daniel&state=FL -> 1 results were found, Daniel Eduardo Careaga, Coral Gables FL; View Profile -> Certifying board American Board of Plastic Surgery, Specialty Plastic Surgery, First certified 2014, Most recent certification 2024, Actively maintaining certification Yes, Status Certified; second block American Board of Surgery, Specialty Surgery, Status No longer certified | 20 September 2026 |
| mqa | https://mqa-internet.doh.state.fl.us/MQASearchServices/HealthcarePr… | official register | GET MQA licence detail ME105769 -> CAREAGA, DANIEL EDUARDO, Medical Doctor, Clear/Active, Address of Record 220 Alhambra Circle 1st Floor, CORAL GABLES FL 33134, Discipline on File No, Public Complaint No; GET MQA CSV export BusinessName=Careaga Plastic Surgery -> OSR1379, LeJeune Plastic Surgery, CORAL GABLES, Clear; OSR detail LicInd=1656&ProCde=1514 -> org LeJeune Plastic Surgery, dba Careaga Plastic Surgery, Address of Record 220 ALHAMBRA CIR. SUITE 260, CORAL GABLES FL 33134 | 20 September 2026 |
| sunbiz | https://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/SearchResults/E… | official register | Sunbiz entity-name search CAREAGA PLASTIC SURGERY -> the alphabetical starts-with index continues at CAREAGA REAL ESTATE LLC, CAREAGA SERVICES LLC and further unrelated names; no company of the practice name is on file | 20 September 2026 |
| leie | https://oig.hhs.gov/exclusions/downloadables/UPDATED.csv | official register | Full HHS-OIG LEIE exclusion CSV (84,001 rows) downloaded on 2026-09-20 and matched on LASTNAME plus FIRSTNAME for the responsible physician and on BUSNAME for the practice; no matching record | 20 September 2026 |
| fronts | https://careagaplasticsurgery.com/ | clinic's own site | language fronts compared mechanically for M8 — en: https://www.careagaplasticsurgery.com/ | es: https://www.careagaplasticsurgery.com/es/ | x-español: https://www.careagaplasticsurgery.com/es/ | 20 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M8: null → 5 (Mechanical cross-locale comparison (methodology v1.1, item 9).) |
| 20 September 2026 | Initial collection (v1.1 pass 1). |
Correction or right of reply
Corrections are applied with a source link and logged publicly. A clinic statement without a source is published next to the data; the score does not change.