Dr. Ian Marrero, MD — Hand & Plastic Surgery
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 78.4/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #5 of 15 ranked clinics · last checked 19 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Single-physician plastic and hand-surgery practice in San Juan. Responsible surgeon named with role; specialist certification matched in the ABMS board register; the English front carries unedited template copy referencing an out-of-state location.
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 | 4.8 out of 5 · reviews: 106 |
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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, with a Surgery of the Hand subspecialty certification, first certified 2008. [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 San Juan address. [site-en] |
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 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 Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Queried, no match. Last attempt: legal_entity, 18 September 2026 — Both queries: 0 results. The clinic names no legal entity of its own (brand/personal name only). The previously-noted name-coincidence match, Marrero Reconstructive & Plastic Surgeons, LLC (340432-1511), remains DISSOLVED and is a different business name — not attributable to this practice. |
? | ? | 8 | 2026-09-19 |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Logos without numbers. Site states “Board Certified in Cosmetic & Reconstructive Surgery”; no licence or registration number published. [site-en] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-09-02 | |
| 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. Unedited template copy repeated across three procedure blocks claims to be “industry-leading” and “the leading destination for luxury cosmetic care in San Diego” — a systematic superlative pattern (and a wrong city) in the clinic’s own English-front text. [site-en] Welcome to our clinic, your pathway to natural-looking results from industry-leading surgeons and injectors. We invite you to come discover why we are the leading destination for luxury cosmetic care in San Diego. |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-02 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency All load-bearing fields agree. Mechanical comparison of 2 language fronts (en, es) 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 Two or three. FAQ page publishes a “Risks and Benefits” section and a “Recovery and Aftercare” section; no consent form, revision policy or complaint route found. [site-faq] |
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-en] |
|---|---|
| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site-en] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site-en] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site-en] |
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. Ian Marrero [site-en] [abms-profile] | Plastic surgeon (Surgery of the Hand subspecialty) | not published |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site-en]
What we could not verify
- M3 · Basic medical licence — Register closed to machine queries
- M4 · Facility registration — Queried, no match
- M5 · Legal-entity traceability — Queried, no match
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.ianmarreromd.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +1 787-272-5000 |
| Address | 310 Ave. Lomas Verdes, Suite 202, San Juan, PR 00927 |
| City | San Juan |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site-en | https://www.ianmarreromd.com/ | clinic's own site | physician, address, phone, menu, superlative quote | 2 September 2026 |
| site-es | https://www.ianmarreromd.com/es | clinic's own site | Spanish-front physician, menu (consistency check) | 2 September 2026 |
| site-faq | https://www.ianmarreromd.com/faq | clinic's own site | Risks and Benefits, Recovery and Aftercare sections | 2 September 2026 |
| abms-profile | https://www.certificationmatters.org/practitioner/?crtmat_pid=84658… | official register | GET certificationmatters.org/find-my-doctor/?dsearch=1&lname=Marrero-Amadeo&fname=Ian&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 MARRERO: no matching active exclusion | 2 September 2026 |
| fronts | https://www.ianmarreromd.com/ | clinic's own site | language fronts compared mechanically for M8 — en: https://www.ianmarreromd.com/ | es: https://www.ianmarreromd.com/es | 18 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 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.M5: null → null (Departamento de Estado RCP re-searched (loop pass 1): no active match under the physician’s name or a plausible practice name — reclassified retry -> not_found.) |
| 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 | Initial collection. |
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