Argüello Plastic Surgery
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 77.9/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #6 of 15 ranked clinics · last checked 19 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Single-physician plastic and reconstructive surgery practice in Ponce. Physician named with role and specialist certification matched in the ABMS board register.
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 | 5 out of 5 · reviews: 60 |
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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: currently certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, specialty Plastic Surgery, first certified 2024. [abms-profile] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-09-02 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. Sole physician named with role and tied to the Ponce address. [site] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-09-02 | |
| 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: none_found, 18 September 2026 — Re-probed 2026-09-18 (loop pass 1): orcps.salud.pr.gov, the API host orcpsws.salud.pr.gov and the mirror orcps.salud.gov.pr all still fail to complete a TCP handshake from this egress (curl exit 28 / HTTP 000, confirmed again via a live Chrome session for the sibling facility_registry host); salud.pr.gov is likewise unreachable. A register that answers is not closed — this one still does not. Secondary routes checked and excluded: pr.pcshq.com Juntas Examinadoras 'ESPECIALISTAS EN BELLEZA' board licenses non-physician aesthetic staff only, never doctors; NPPES NPI Registry gives a self-reported licence NUMBER at enumeration only, never a status check; no Puerto Rico medical or dermatology society publishes a licence lookup. none_found. |
? | ? | 8 | 2026-09-19 |
| M4 | Facility registration Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Queried, no match. Last attempt: facility_registry, 19 September 2026 — No row carries the practice name, the physician surname or the street address. The only ambulatory surgical centre on Ave Tito Castro is 40C0001110 at number 921, a different building and operator. The file lists Medicare-certified facilities only; an office-based practice outside it is not a finding. SARAFS (the Puerto Rico facility licence) timed out from both egresses again on 2026-09-19. |
? | ? | 10 | 2026-09-19 |
| 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. Departamento de Estado corporate register: Arguello Plastic Surgery LLC, index 544921-1511, status ACTIVE; resident agent and officer Marvin Arguello Angarita match the named physician Dr. Marvin Argüello Angarita. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the number is not printed on the clinic pages (audit not_published); the clinic names the entity at https://www.arguelloplasticsurgery.com/ — matched by name] [rcp-search] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. No certification, licence or registration number published on the pages checked. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-09-02 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty No pattern from the lexicon found. No guarantee or unmatched-superlative language found on the pages checked. [site] |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-02 | |
| 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 | 2026-09-19 |
| M9 | Patient documents None. No consent, risk, aftercare, revision-policy or complaint content found on the pages checked. [site] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-02 |
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. Marvin Argüello Angarita [site] [abms-profile] | Plastic and reconstructive surgeon | not published |
Legal entity: Arguello Plastic Surgery LLC · 544921-1511 [rcp-search]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
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.arguelloplasticsurgery.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +1 787-961-7050 |
| Address | 909 Ave. Tito Castro, Suite 816, Ponce, PR 00716 |
| City | Ponce |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.arguelloplasticsurgery.com/ | clinic's own site | physician, address, phone, menu | 2 September 2026 |
| abms-profile | https://www.certificationmatters.org/practitioner/?crtmat_pid=12394… | official register | GET certificationmatters.org/find-my-doctor/?dsearch=1&lname=Arguello&fname=Marvin&state=PR then practitioner profile | 2 September 2026 |
| leie | https://oig.hhs.gov/exclusions/downloadables/UPDATED.csv | official register | OIG LEIE bulk CSV filtered STATE=PR, LASTNAME contains ARGUELLO/ANGARITA: no matching active exclusion | 2 September 2026 |
| rcp-search | https://rceapi.estado.pr.gov/api/corporation/search | official register | POST rceapi.estado.pr.gov/api/corporation/search q=ARGUELLO → ARGUELLO PLASTIC SURGERY LLC, 544921-1511, ACTIVE | 2 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 22 September 2026 | axes.M5: 5 → 4 (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — § F rule 6 — the number is not printed on the clinic pages (audit not_published); the clinic names the entity at https://www.arguelloplasticsurgery.com/ — matched by name) |
| 19 September 2026 | axes.M4: null → null (Re-run against the CMS Provider of Services file from the second egress (v1.2 pass 1 retry): queried, no match.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M3: null → null (Register re-probed (loop pass 1, v1.2): medical_licence host confirmed still unreachable from this egress; secondary routes searched and exhausted (none_found) — reclassified retry -> registry_closed, leaves the coverage denominator per v1.2.) |
| 2 September 2026 | axes.M5: null → 5 (Departamento de Estado RCP match (follow-up pass)) |
| 2 September 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.