State of the Art Plastic Surgery — Dr. Karim Benítez-Marchand, MD
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 90/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #1 of 15 ranked clinics · last checked 19 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Single-physician plastic-surgery practice in Guaynabo. Responsible surgeon named with role; specialist certification matched in the ABMS board register; the site publishes the physician’s Puerto Rico medical licence number, which matches the number filed with the federal NPPES registry.
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 | 4.9 out of 5 · reviews: 162 |
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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 2006. [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 Guaynabo address. [site-en] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-09-02 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence The register of this class is not machine-accessible or does not cover this class of practitioner; the clinic itself publishes the number. Register not machine-accessible (medical_licence closed — host unreachable, see registry-map); the clinic's own About page publishes the physician's Puerto Rico Medical License number directly (v1.2 anchor M3=3). [site-about] Puerto Rico Medical License #12277 |
SEC | 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, 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 The legal entity and its registration number are published by the clinic and matched in the register. Departamento de Estado corporate register: State of the Art Plastic Surgery, P.S.C, index 3071-711, status ACTIVE; resident agent and officer Karim Benitez Marchand match the named physician Dr. Karim Benítez-Marchand, and the registered address (Ave. San Patricio, Guaynabo) matches the clinic address. [rcp-search] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-02 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Physician numbers published; facility or legal-entity numbers not. Site publishes “Puerto Rico Medical License #12277” and the certifying board name; no facility or legal-entity number published. [site-about] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-09-02 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty No pattern from the lexicon found. No guarantee or unmatched-superlative language found in the clinic’s own text; patient testimonials (out of scope) are the only superlative-styled text. [site-en] |
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. Downloadable Consent Form and Complications Policy published; no revision policy or dedicated complaint route found. [site-resources] |
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] |
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| 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. Karim Benítez-Marchand [site-about] [nppes] | Plastic surgeon | 12277 |
Legal entity: State of the Art Plastic Surgery, P.S.C · 3071-711 [rcp-search]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site-en]
What we could not verify
- M4 · Facility registration — 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://drkarimbenitez.com/ |
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| Phone | +1 787-620-4070 |
| Address | 101 Av. San Patricio, Guaynabo, PR 00968 |
| City | Guaynabo |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site-en | https://drkarimbenitez.com/ | clinic's own site | physician, address, phone, menu | 2 September 2026 |
| site-about | https://drkarimbenitez.com/about-us/ | clinic's own site | published Puerto Rico Medical License #12277 | 2 September 2026 |
| site-about-es | https://drkarimbenitez.com/es/sobre-nosotros/ | clinic's own site | Spanish-front licence number (same page content as English) | 2 September 2026 |
| site-resources | https://drkarimbenitez.com/patient-resources/ | clinic's own site | downloadable Consent Form, Complications Policy | 2 September 2026 |
| abms-profile | https://www.certificationmatters.org/practitioner/?crtmat_pid=71357… | official register | GET certificationmatters.org/find-my-doctor/?dsearch=1&lname=Benitez&fname=Karim&state=PR then practitioner profile | 2 September 2026 |
| nppes | https://npiregistry.cms.hhs.gov/api/?version=2.1&last_name=Benitez-… | secondary | NPPES NPI registry: PR licence 12277 self-reported by the provider, cross-checking the site’s published number | 2 September 2026 |
| leie | https://oig.hhs.gov/exclusions/downloadables/UPDATED.csv | official register | OIG LEIE bulk CSV filtered STATE=PR, LASTNAME contains BENITEZ/MARCHAND: no 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=STATE OF THE ART → STATE OF THE ART PLASTIC SURGERY, P.S.C, 3071-711, ACTIVE | 2 September 2026 |
| fronts | https://drkarimbenitez.com/ | clinic's own site | language fronts compared mechanically for M8 — en: https://drkarimbenitez.com/ | es: https://drkarimbenitez.com/es/home-espanol/ | 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.M3: null → 3 (Clinic’s own About page publishes the PR Medical License number while the register itself remains unreachable (v1.2 anchor M3=3, loop pass 1).) |
| 2 September 2026 | axes.M5: null → 5 (Departamento de Estado RCP match (follow-up pass)) |
| 2 September 2026 | Initial collection. |
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