Cabotage Plastic Surgery
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 42.9/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #8 of 10 ranked clinics · last checked 30 August 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.
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 Only a secondary source (association, aggregator) supports the certification. Name 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] |
SEC | 26 | 2026-08-30 | |
| 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 — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. The PRC licence verification service is captcha-gated and answers every scripted query with an error, so no licence check was possible. |
? | ? | 8 | 2026-08-30 |
| M4 | Facility registration Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. The state facility register is unreachable and the open PhilHealth list covers accredited ambulatory surgical clinics only; a hospital-based consulting practice is outside its scope. |
? | ? | 10 | 2026-08-30 |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability Brand only. 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 without guarantees. 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. The site has a single English front, so there is nothing to compare. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-08-30 |
| 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]
- Rhinoplasty: verified yes →
- Breast surgery: verified yes →
- Liposuction & body contouring: verified yes →
- Hair transplant: verified no
- Injectables: verified no
- Medical weight loss: verified no
- Sanctions / discipline register (Professional Regulation Commission — List of Professionals with Suspended or Revoked Licenses): could not verify [prc-sanctions]
What we could not verify
- M3 · Basic medical licence
- M4 · Facility registration
- M8 · Cross-locale consistency
These cells score nothing and count against coverage, but they are not negative findings. 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 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 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.