Cut for a Purpose (Zubiri Plastic Surgery)
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 62.7/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #4 of 17 ranked clinics · last checked 18 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Plastic-surgery practice in Cebu City run by two named surgeons, father and son. Both are listed in the PAPRAS Fellows directory with a Cebu City location. The site publishes a procedure menu with per-procedure risk and recovery notes and no registration numbers.
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 | 3.9 out of 5 · reviews: 14 |
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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 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. Both physicians named with role and tied to the Cebu City address. [site] |
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 — 2 rows returned for the two named surgeons — row 57940 'ZUBIRI | JESUSITO | SAMSON | PLASTIC RECONSTRUCTIVE AND AESTHETIC SURGERY | CEBU CITY' and row 57941 'ZUBIRI | J. KRISTOFFER | TEMBREVILLA | PLASTIC & RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY | CEBU CITY' 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. Only the clinic brand is published; no operating company or corporation is named anywhere on the site, and the company register is not scriptable. [site] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Logos without numbers. Society fellowships and college memberships listed without registration numbers or issuers. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty One or two soft superlatives or non-absolute safety promises. Lexicon scan of the clinic's own pages: home page with its About, Procedures, Gallery and Contact sections, https://cutforapurpose.com/curriculum-vitae.html and https://cutforapurpose.com/faq.html, all in English. No guarantee, no outcome promise and no percentage claim appears anywhere. Two soft superlatives are published in the clinic's own voice, the quoted sentence about the founding surgeon and a description of his United States training programme; the remaining superlative wording belongs to quoted descriptions of the societies the surgeons belong to. [site] Dr. Jesusito Zubiri is one of the few plastic surgeons in the Philippines who has the ability to combine technical skill with an artist’s view of beauty. |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-18 | |
| 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 Two or three. Per-procedure risk and recovery information published; no consent form, revision policy or complaint route found. [site] |
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] |
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. Jesusito S. Zubiri [site] [papras] | Plastic surgeon, founder | not published |
| Dr. J. Kristoffer T. Zubiri [site] [papras] | Plastic surgeon | 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 SECBoth named surgeons appear in the PAPRAS Fellows directory with the location City of Cebu. The Philippines has no state specialty register, so an association roster is the highest provenance available for this axis.[papras]
- M3 · Basic medical licence SECBoth named surgeons appear in the open PhilHealth list of accredited physicians of 31 August 2026: 'ZUBIRI | JESUSITO | SAMSON | PLASTIC RECONSTRUCTIVE AND AESTHETIC SURGERY | CEBU CITY' and 'ZUBIRI | J. KRISTOFFER | TEMBREVILLA | PLASTIC & RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY | CEBU CITY'. PhilHealth accreditation presupposes a current Professional Regulation Commission registration; it is an insurance accreditation 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://cutforapurpose.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +63 32 254 7999 |
| Address | Suite 208, M. Diaz Bldg., Osmeña Blvd., Cebu City |
| City | Cebu |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://cutforapurpose.com/ | clinic's own site | physician names and roles, address, phone, procedure menu, per-procedure risks and recovery | 30 August 2026 |
| papras | https://www.papras.ph/doctors | secondary | GET https://www.papras.ph/doctors - Fellows roster, 125 cards on one page; cards read verbatim "Dr. Jesusito Zubiri - Location: City of Cebu, Cebu" and "Dr. J. Kristoffer Zubiri - Location: City of Cebu, Cebu" | 30 August 2026 |
| philhealth | https://www.philhealth.gov.ph/partners/providers/facilities/accredi… | official register | pdf GET https://www.philhealth.gov.ph/partners/providers/facilities/accredited/ASC_073126.pdf - PhilHealth List of Accredited Ambulatory Surgical Clinics for CY 2026, 273 data rows, updated as of July 31, 2026; the Cebu City block was read row by row and the whole file searched by facility name, no matching row | 30 August 2026 |
| prc-sanctions | https://www.prc.gov.ph/list-professionals-suspended-or-revoked-lice… | official register | GET https://www.prc.gov.ph/list-professionals-suspended-or-revoked-licenses plus all 13 batch PDFs linked from it (text recovered with the +29 glyph offset); the MEDICINE rows were listed in full and checked against the surname Zubiri; no entry | 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 rows 57940 and 57941 — "ZUBIRI | JESUSITO | SAMSON | PLASTIC RECONSTRUCTIVE AND AESTHETIC SURGERY | CEBU CITY", "ZUBIRI | J. KRISTOFFER | TEMBREVILLA | PLASTIC & RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY | CEBU CITY" | 18 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M7: null → 4 (Re-run as a lexicon scan of the clinic's own live pages (v1.2 pass 1).) |
| 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 | axes.M7: 4 → null (Citation re-check: quote not found at https://cutforapurpose.com/ (quote not found); cell degraded to could-not-verify.) |
| 30 August 2026 | Initial collection. |
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