Clínica Alfaro — Dra. María José Alfaro Vega
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 57.4/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #21 of 21 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Aesthetic-medicine department inside a general medical, spa and nutrition clinic in Heredia. Responsible physician named with role and tied to this address; medical licence matched in the CMC register under general medicine (no plastic-surgery board specialty on file).
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 in the register with a current status; the register does not disclose the specialty, or discloses a different one (including “no specialisation”), and the clinic claims no protected title. The register's own line is shown on the profile. CMC register: Activo, Medicina General (no aesthetic/plastic-surgery board specialty on file). [cmc] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Matched by name (surname stem and given name or initial; a second identifier where the name is ambiguous). Licence MED6349 matched, status Activo. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the number is not printed on the clinic's own pages (audit not_published) — matched by name] [cmc] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Not applicable: this country has no Facility register. |
— | — | — | 2026-09-20 |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability The legal entity is named; the register of this class is not accessible or does not cover this legal form (sole practitioner, private practice). The clinic names the company Liteway S.A. in the footer of its privacy page but publishes no cedula juridica. The Hacienda taxpayer register answers only on an identification number — there is no name search — and no public Costa Rican company register answers a name query from here. [site-politicas] © 2005-2021 Liteway S.A. Todos los derechos reservados. |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Logos without numbers. Names several professional societies and diplomas (SIM, ISC, IUL, UIME, SEME, CMC) without ID numbers. [site-nosotros] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty One or two soft superlatives or non-absolute safety promises. Tenemos los mejores servicios de spa. |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front. Last attempt: clinic_site, 20 September 2026 — one language front; no hreflang alternates or language links The clinic site publishes one language front; nothing to compare. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-09-20 |
| M9 | Patient documents None. |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-31 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dra. María José Alfaro Vega [site] [cmc] | Medical director, general medicine and anti-aging aesthetic medicine | MED6349 |
Legal entity: Liteway S.A. [site-contact]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: aesthetic in general clinic (focus adjustment -2) [site]
What we could not verify
- 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.clinicaalfaro.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +506 2260-9775 |
| Address | Heredia, Costa Rica |
| City | Heredia |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.clinicaalfaro.com/ | clinic's own site | menu, advertising claim | 31 August 2026 |
| site-nosotros | https://www.clinicaalfaro.com/nosotros | clinic's own site | physician, role, credentials | 31 August 2026 |
| site-contact | https://www.clinicaalfaro.com/contacto | clinic's own site | address, phone, legal-entity name in footer | 31 August 2026 |
| cmc | https://medicoscr.hulilabs.com/es/doctor/maria-jose-alfaro-vega | official register | medical licence, status, specialty | 31 August 2026 |
| cmc-sanctions | https://medicos.cr/web2/registro-de-infractores/ | official register | no active sanction for MED6349 | 31 August 2026 |
| site-politicas | https://www.clinicaalfaro.com/politicas | clinic's own site | privacy page; the company name Liteway S.A. in the page footer | 20 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 22 September 2026 | axes.M3: 5 → 4 (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — § F rule 6 — the number is not printed on the clinic's own pages (audit not_published) — matched by name) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M5: null → 3 (Re-run against the Hacienda taxpayer register and the company-register fallbacks (v1.2 pass 1)) |
| 31 August 2026 | Initial collection. |
Correction or right of reply
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