Tampa Bay Plastic Surgery
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 76.5/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #10 of 24 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Plastic surgery practice in the Hyde Park area of Tampa. The responsible 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 company named in the site footer is on file in the state register at the same street address.
Google Maps listing (reference, not scored)
What the clinic's public Google Maps listing showed when we read it: the rating other people gave, the number of their reviews and the hours the clinic itself publishes there. This block is a reference only — it does not enter the score, the rank, the ceilings or the holds, and we have not checked it beyond matching the listing to this record.
| Google rating | 4.7 out of 5 · reviews: 156 |
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| Opening hours as published on the listing |
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| Open the listing on Google Maps | Google Maps |
Source: Google Maps, read 4 October 2026. The listing was matched to this record by the clinic's website address, the clinic's phone number.
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: David Eric Halpern, MD, currently certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, specialty Plastic Surgery, first certified 1998, most recent certification 2018, actively maintaining certification Yes, status Certified; reported location Tampa, FL. The same profile carries a second block, American Board of Surgery, subspecialty Surgery of the Hand, status Certified, and a third, 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 ME78789, HALPERN, DAVID ERIC, Medical Doctor, Clear/Active, address of record 120 South Fremont Avenue, Tampa, matching this address; matched by name search. Discipline on File No, Public Complaint No. [mqa] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Queried, no match. Last attempt: facility_registry, 20 September 2026 — No office-surgery registration on file for this practice or this address; the practice publishes no facility number of its own. Register queried, no record found for this address. |
? | ? | 10 | 2026-09-20 |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability The clinic names the legal entity or the responsible person in its legal notice and the record is found by name; or the number the clinic publishes leads to an entity with a different name that is tied to this location by the same address or the same responsible person. The site footer names the legal entity on every page without a registration number; the state register returns the same name at the same address: Tampa Bay Plastic Surgery Inc., P00000011590, ACTIVE, principal address 120 S Fremont Ave, Tampa, with the surgeon as registered agent and president. [site] [sunbiz] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Logos without numbers. The physician pages name the certifying bodies of his certifications, but publish no licence number, no facility registration number and no company registration number. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty Systematic superlatives; systematic safety promises without an absolute; absolutes about the past (success rates, “no infection since …”, satisfaction figures, “we guarantee your satisfaction”); comparisons with surgery. Lexicon scan of the pages loaded on 2026-09-20 (home, contact, reviews, breast implant revision, in the media, physician profile, staff, philanthropy, patient forms, skincare resources, aftercare, financing, specials, events, about): the same unsourced superlative sentence about the surgeon is repeated in the footer block of every page loaded, quoted below, and further superlatives appear on the home page. No outcome or safety guarantee was found; text inside patient testimonials was left out of scope. [site] Dr. David E. Halpern is Tampa's nationally renowned plastic surgeon. |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front. Last attempt: clinic_site, 20 September 2026 — one language front; no hreflang alternates or language links The clinic site publishes one language front; nothing to compare. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-09-20 |
| M9 | Patient documents Two or three. Pages loaded on 2026-09-20: an online patient forms page and a dedicated aftercare page are published; no statement of procedure risks, no revision policy and no complaint route 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] |
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| 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. David E. Halpern [site] [cm] [mqa] | Board-certified plastic surgeon, practice owner | ME78789 |
Legal entity: Tampa Bay Plastic Surgery Inc. · P00000011590 [sunbiz]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
What we could not verify
- M4 · Facility registration — Queried, no match
- M8 · Cross-locale consistency — Single language front
These cells score nothing and are not negative findings. A cell on a register that is closed to machine queries is left out of the coverage calculation; the others count against it. Each one names why it is empty; an attempt that did not complete is re-run in the next collection pass. If you can point to a public source, send it.
Contact details
| Website | https://davidhalpernmd.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | (813) 871-5000 |
| Address | 120 South Fremont Avenue, Tampa, FL 33606 |
| City | Tampa |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://davidhalpernmd.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=25055… | official register | GET https://www.certificationmatters.org/find-my-doctor/?dsearch=1&lname=Halpern&fname=David&state=FL -> 1 results were found, David Eric Halpern, Tampa FL; View Profile -> Certifying board American Board of Plastic Surgery, Specialty Plastic Surgery, First certified 1998, Most recent certification 2018, Actively maintaining certification Yes, Status Certified; American Board of Surgery, Subspecialty Surgery of the Hand, Status Certified; 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 ME78789 -> HALPERN, DAVID ERIC, Medical Doctor, Clear/Active, Address of Record 120 South Fremont Avenue, TAMPA FL 33606, Discipline on File No, Public Complaint No | 20 September 2026 |
| sunbiz | https://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/SearchResults/E… | official register | Sunbiz entity-name search TAMPA BAY PLASTIC SURGERY -> TAMPA BAY PLASTIC SURGERY INC., Document Number P00000011590, FEI/EIN 59-3644408, Date Filed 02/02/2000, Status ACTIVE, Principal Address 120 S FREMONT AVE, TAMPA FL 33606, Registered Agent and President HALPERN, DAVID E | 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 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 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.