CLINIC RECORD · CAREAGA issued 2026-07-09 · v1
Careaga Plastic Surgery, Coral Gables
Coral Gables · Miami-Dade
Cosmetic / plastic surgery
Surgeon — named
№ME105769
FLAGGED
with a caveat Measured · 85%
M1 · Operating-surgeon board certification (ABPS) 5 · 22%
OFFICIAL The primary named surgeon, Dr. Daniel Careaga, is recorded in the FL DOH Specialty Certification field as American Board of Plastic Surgery certified (and American Board of Surgery, general surgery, 2008); title matches the surgical scope. source ↗
M2 · Florida licence standing & discipline 5 · 20%
OFFICIAL Florida licence ME105769 is Clear/Active (original issue 2009); FL DOH shows Discipline on File: No and Public Complaint: No. A FL DOH Enforcement Actions search returned no order. source ↗
M3 · Facility registration & accreditation — · 15%
OFFICIAL Facility registration/accreditation not verifiable as of the check date: the QUAD A accreditor directory is globally offline (Cloudflare Error 1000, the accreditor's DNS). To be reopened when the directory is restored. source ↗ · provisional
M4 · Surgeon accountability 5 · 13%
OFFICIAL The primary operating surgeon is named and traceable in FL DOH MQA (address of record matches the Coral Gables clinic). source ↗
M5 · Advertising honesty 3 · 10%
UNVERIFIED The primary surgeon's ABPS certification matches the record. Separately, a second surgeon associated with the practice is marketed as a board-certified plastic surgeon; that claim is under editorial and legal review against the official FL DOH record (which, for the second licensee checked, showed no recognised specialty-board certification). Pending right-of-reply, the second-surgeon claim is not resolved here and is not published as a finding. source ↗
M6 · Price / process candour 4 · 5%
UNVERIFIED Pricing is consult-based with process detail; no discount-surgery funnel observed. source ↗
Editorial · 15%
E1 · Practice-model continuity 5 · 5%
UNVERIFIED editorial — One continuous named practice around the primary surgeon; not a franchise or coordinator front. source ↗
E2 · Entity / rebrand continuity 4 · 5%
UNVERIFIED editorial — The practice name maps to the primary surgeon; the two-surgeon structure lowers per-operator attribution slightly. source ↗
E3 · Professional corroboration — · 2%
UNVERIFIED editorial — Independent professional-society corroboration (ASPS/ASAPS/FACS) not yet confirmed at a directory source for the check date; left open rather than guessed. source ↗ · provisional
E4 · Out-of-state / international pathway 3 · 3%
UNVERIFIED editorial — Local Florida practice; out-of-town patients common, no misleading medical-tourism funnel found. source ↗
Florida-licensed physician (MQA): yes
Named accountable surgeon: yes
In register scope: yes
Clinic operating: yes
What this register does NOT measure We do not rate the result of a procedure, a surgeon's skill, complications or "who's better". We verify structural facts: the surgeon's ABPS/ABMS board certification, the Florida licence standing, facility registration and accreditation, advertising honesty, surgeon accountability and price — and where something is unconfirmed, we say so.