Cabotage Plastic Surgery
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 52/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #12 of 17 ranked clinics · last checked 18 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Single-surgeon plastic-surgery practice at Diliman Doctors Hospital in Quezon City. The responsible surgeon is named with his role on every page. His name appears in the PAPRAS Fellows directory, a professional-society roster; the Philippines has no state specialty register, so specialty certification carries association provenance only.
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.
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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 Not applicable: this country has no Specialist board register. |
— | — | — | 2026-09-18 |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. The surgeon is named with his role on the home page and the about page, and the same pages carry the Quezon City practice address. [site] [site-about] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Could not verify — this register is closed to machine queries in this country, so the axis is left out of the coverage calculation for every clinic on this site. Not a negative finding. Reason: Register closed to machine queries. Last attempt: philhealth-physicians, 18 September 2026 — 1 row returned — row 10003 'CABOTAGE | RICHARD JOSEPH | CABACCAN | PLASTIC RECONSTRUCTIVE AND AESTHETIC SURGERY | QUEZON CITY | METRO MANILA' The national licence register refuses scripted queries behind a reCAPTCHA, so no licence check can be executed. The open PhilHealth list of accredited physicians was run instead as the secondary route. |
? | ? | 8 | 2026-09-18 |
| M4 | Facility registration Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Queried, no match. Last attempt: facility_registry, 18 September 2026 — 0 rows; the whole file was recovered (273 numbered rows, matching the tally PhilHealth publishes) and every search term returned no match for this facility The current PhilHealth list of accredited ambulatory surgical clinics was downloaded and searched in full; it holds no row for this facility. Accreditation is voluntary and covers surgical facilities only, so nothing follows from the absence of a row. |
? | ? | 10 | 2026-09-18 |
| 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 site publishes a brand name only, with no operating company or registration number; the SEC company search answers scripted requests with a challenge page, so no register match was possible either. [site] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Logos without numbers. Post-nominal credential letters are published without any registration or licence number and without an issuing register. [site-about] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| 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. Unattributed ranking wording appears across several pages of the clinic's own copy. [site] [site-consultation] A TOP PHILIPPINES PLASTIC SURGEON |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front. Last attempt: clinic_site, 18 September 2026 — one language front; no hreflang alternates or language links The clinic site publishes one language front; nothing to compare. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-09-18 |
| M9 | Patient documents None. No informed-consent, risk, aftercare, revision-policy or complaint-route document is published; the consultation page covers photographs and travel arrangements only. [site] [site-consultation] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-30 |
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] [site-about] |
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. Richard Cabotage [site] [site-about] [papras] | Plastic surgeon, responsible physician | not published |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
Secondary findings (not scored)
What a professional society, an international directory, a hospital page or another jurisdiction’s register says, shown for information where the country’s own register is closed. These facts enter neither the score nor the coverage.
- M1 · Specialist certification of the responsible physician SECName found in the PAPRAS Fellows directory (National Capital Region filter), card "Dr. Richard Cabotage — Location: Quezon City". PAPRAS is a professional society, not a state register; the Philippines has no state specialty register, so this axis is capped at 2 in this country.[papras]
- M3 · Basic medical licence SECThe named surgeon appears in the open PhilHealth list of accredited physicians of 31 August 2026: 'CABOTAGE | RICHARD JOSEPH | CABACCAN | PLASTIC RECONSTRUCTIVE AND AESTHETIC SURGERY | QUEZON CITY | METRO MANILA'. PhilHealth accreditation presupposes a current Professional Regulation Commission registration; it is voluntary and carries no licence number, so it is shown here rather than scored.[philhealth-physicians]
What we could not verify
- M3 · Basic medical licence — Register closed to machine queries
- 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://www.philippinesplasticsurgeon.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +63 9 778 199910 |
| Address | Diliman Doctors Hospital, 251 Commonwealth Ave, Matandang Balara, Quezon City 1119 |
| City | Manila |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.philippinesplasticsurgeon.com/ | clinic's own site | clinic name, Quezon City address, phone, named surgeon and role, procedure menu, advertising wording | 30 August 2026 |
| site-about | https://www.philippinesplasticsurgeon.com/about | clinic's own site | surgeon biography, post-nominal credential letters, training history | 30 August 2026 |
| site-consultation | https://www.philippinesplasticsurgeon.com/consultation | clinic's own site | consultation procedure; absence of patient-document classes | 30 August 2026 |
| papras | https://www.papras.ph/doctors?region=National%20Capital%20Region%20… | secondary | GET https://www.papras.ph/doctors?region=National Capital Region (NCR) — PAPRAS Fellows directory, 66 cards returned; card "Dr. Richard Cabotage — Location: Quezon City" | 30 August 2026 |
| prc-sanctions | https://www.prc.gov.ph/list-professionals-suspended-or-revoked-lice… | official register | GET the index page, then GET all 13 linked batch PDFs; nine yielded text and were searched for MEDICINE rows (only Aster M. Reganit, licence 16232, and Ronaldo R. Unidad, licence 92939, appear) | 30 August 2026 |
| philhealth-physicians | https://www.philhealth.gov.ph/partners/providers/professional/accre… | secondary | pdf https://www.philhealth.gov.ph/partners/providers/professional/accredited/Physicians_08-2026.pdf row 10003 — "CABOTAGE | RICHARD JOSEPH | CABACCAN | PLASTIC RECONSTRUCTIVE AND AESTHETIC SURGERY | QUEZON CITY | METRO MANILA" | 18 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M4: null → null (Re-run against the open PhilHealth list of accredited ambulatory surgical clinics (v1.2 pass 1): the query completed and returned no row, so the cell is typed not_found.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M3: null → null (Re-run against the PRC licence verification service and its secondary route (v1.2 pass 1): the register was re-probed and refuses every scripted query, so the cell is typed registry_closed.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M1: 2 → null (Methodology v1.2 (owner ruling 2026-09-18): M1 is not scored where the country's specialist register is not published; the secondary finding moved to facts[]) |
| 30 August 2026 | Initial collection. |
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.