Gustavo Colberg, MD
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 56/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #14 of 15 ranked clinics · last checked 18 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Single-physician plastic-surgery practice in the Mayagüez/Cabo Rojo area. Physician named with role; the operating address is a federally certified ambulatory surgical centre matched by name and address in the facility register; the physician’s only ABMS record on file is a general-surgery certification that is no longer current.
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 | 4.6 out of 5 · reviews: 51 |
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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 Only a secondary source (society, association, directory) supports the certification, while the official register of this class is open in the jurisdiction. ABMS Certification Matters record under this name shows only a General Surgery certification (American Board of Surgery, first certified 1997) that is no longer current; no Plastic Surgery board certification is on file. Scored from the clinic’s own experience claim, per the country’s ABMS-based M1 rule. [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 Cabo Rojo 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 | 2026-09-18 |
| M4 | Facility registration Record found: name, address and status match. CMS Provider of Services file: an ambulatory surgical centre certified for plastic surgery (plstc_srgry_sw=Yes, status Certified) is registered under a matching name and the identical building/address (“Edif Dres Colberg”, Carr. 100 Km 5.2, Cabo Rojo). [cms-pos] |
OFF | 10 | 2026-09-02 | |
| 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. Departamento de Estado corporate register: COLBERG MEDI SPA LLC, index 459320-1511, status ACTIVE; resident agent and sole officer Gustavo Colberg Lugo match the named physician Dr. Gustavo Colberg, and the registered address (Carretera 100 Km 5.2, Edificio Doctores Colberg, Cabo Rojo) matches the clinic address exactly. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the clinic publishes neither the number nor the legal entity (audit no_number_on_record, entity name not found on the clinic pages; the entity was found by us — shown as a fact)] [rce-search-colbergmedispa] [rce-info-colbergmedispa] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. No certification, licence or registration number published; the site states years of experience only. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-09-02 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty No pattern from the lexicon found. Re-scanned home, servicios and medi-spa pages 2026-09-18: only idiomatic marketing phrasing found ("resaltar lo mejor de ti", "el mejor momento para reconstruir el seno"), no guarantee, "100%"-class or unmatched-superlative pattern in the clinic’s own text. [site] [site-servicios] [site-medispa] |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-18 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency All load-bearing fields agree. Mechanical comparison of 2 language fronts (es, en) on 2026-09-18: every matched physician name, phone number and published number appears on every front. [fronts] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-18 | |
| 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] |
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| 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. Gustavo Colberg [site] | Plastic surgeon | not published |
Legal entity: could not verify
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
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.gustavocolbergmd.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +1 787-805-3232 |
| Address | Edificio Drs. Colberg, Carr. 100 Km 5.2, Cabo Rojo, PR 00623 |
| City | Cabo Rojo |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.gustavocolbergmd.com/ | clinic's own site | physician, address, phone, menu, superlative quote | 2 September 2026 |
| abms-profile | https://www.certificationmatters.org/practitioner/?crtmat_pid=56864… | official register | GET certificationmatters.org/find-my-doctor/?dsearch=1&lname=Colberg&fname=Gustavo&state=PR then practitioner profile (“No Longer Certified”, General Surgery) | 2 September 2026 |
| cms-pos | https://data.cms.gov/data-api/v1/dataset/086e48c4-87a6-4be1-8823-29… | official register | GET data.cms.gov Provider of Services file filtered state_cd=PR, row prvdr_num=40C0001036 fac_name=CENTRO DE CIRUGIA PLASTICA Y OFTALMICA DRES COLBER, plstc_srgry_sw=Yes | 2 September 2026 |
| leie | https://oig.hhs.gov/exclusions/downloadables/UPDATED.csv | official register | OIG LEIE bulk CSV filtered STATE=PR, LASTNAME contains COLBERG: no matching active exclusion | 2 September 2026 |
| fronts | https://www.gustavocolbergmd.com/ | clinic's own site | language fronts compared mechanically for M8 — es: https://www.gustavocolbergmd.com/ | en: https://www.gustavocolbergmd.com/en | 18 September 2026 |
| rce-search-colbergmedispa | https://rceapi.estado.pr.gov/api/corporation/search | official register | POST rceapi.estado.pr.gov/api/corporation/search corpName=COLBERG (matchType 3, Starting With) → COLBERG MEDI SPA LLC, 459320-1511, ACTIVE (among 20 COLBERG-surname entities, none other matching) | 18 September 2026 |
| rce-info-colbergmedispa | https://rceapi.estado.pr.gov/api/corporation/info/459320-1511 | official register | GET corporation detail: resident agent & sole officer Gustavo Colberg Lugo, address Carretera 100 Km 5.2 Edificio Doctores Colberg, Cabo Rojo — matches clinic address exactly | 18 September 2026 |
| site-servicios | https://www.gustavocolbergmd.com/servicios | clinic's own site | procedure-list page scanned for M7 lexicon (no guarantee/superlative pattern found) | 18 September 2026 |
| site-medispa | https://www.gustavocolbergmd.com/medi-spa | clinic's own site | med-spa page scanned for M7 lexicon (no guarantee/superlative pattern found) | 18 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 22 September 2026 | axes.M5: 5 → 2 (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — § F rule 6 — the clinic publishes neither the number nor the legal entity (audit no_number_on_record, entity name not found on the clinic pages; the entity was found by us — shown as a fact)) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M7: null → 5 (Clinic-site rescan (loop pass 1): quote from the withdrawn cell no longer present; no lexicon pattern found on the pages checked.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M5: null → 5 (Departamento de Estado RCP re-searched by surname (Starting-With match) and matched by officer + address (loop pass 1).) |
| 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.) |
| 17 September 2026 | axes.M8: null → 5 (Mechanical cross-locale comparison (methodology v1.1, item 9).) |
| 2 September 2026 | axes.M7: 4 → null (Citation re-check: quote not found at https://www.gustavocolbergmd.com/ (quote not found); cell degraded to could-not-verify.) |
| 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.