Astute Clinic
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 61.1/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #19 of 27 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Aesthetic clinic at Damansara City offering injectable, energy-based and regenerative treatments. The medical director and founder is named with role, is recorded in the Ministry of Health registry of practitioners credentialed for aesthetic procedures and declares this clinic as his principal place of practice in the medical register; the premises are in the Ministry of Health private-clinic register.
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. |
OFF | 26 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. The medical director and founder is named with role on the home page and team page; the address is published on the site. [site] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Matched by name (surname stem and given name or initial; a second identifier where the name is ambiguous). MeRITS: full registration number 45143, annual practising certificate 2026 no. 71178, principal place of practice Astute Clinic, L2-18 DC Mall, 6 Jalan Damanlela, 50490. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the number is not printed on the clinic's own pages (audit not_published) — matched by name] [merits] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Record found: name, address and status match. Ministry of Health private-clinic register: OBJECTID 342530, "ASTUTE CLINIC", name and address match. [ckaps] |
OFF | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| 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. No legal entity is named anywhere on the clinic's own pages: the site carries the trading name only. Pages loaded on 2026-09-20: https://www.astuteclinic.com/, https://www.astuteclinic.com/about-us, https://www.astuteclinic.com/privacy-and-policy, https://www.astuteclinic.com/terms-and-conditions, https://www.astuteclinic.com/return-and-refund-policy, https://www.astuteclinic.com/shipping-and-delivery-policy. [site] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Logos without numbers. Credential statements name the issuing ministry but publish no registration numbers. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| 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. Superlative claims without a named issuer on the home page and about page. [site] |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front. Last attempt: clinic_site, 17 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 Two or three. Terms and conditions, a return and refund policy and a complaint contact route are published; no consent document or dedicated risk page found. [site] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-30 |
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 Jason Yip [site] [merits] [lcp] | Medical director and founder | MMC 45143 / LCP-AMP-001/2018(16) |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
- Rhinoplasty: verified no
- Breast surgery: verified no
- Liposuction & body contouring: verified yes →
- Hair transplant: verified no
- Injectables: verified yes →
- Medical weight loss: verified yes →
- Foreign-patient register (Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council (MHTC) — Find a Hospital directory): could not verify
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.astuteclinic.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +6012-628 6283 |
| Address | L2-18, DC Mall, Damansara City, 6 Jalan Damanlela, Bukit Damansara, 50490 Kuala Lumpur |
| City | Kuala Lumpur |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.astuteclinic.com/ | clinic's own site | physician, role, address, phone, menu, policies | 30 August 2026 |
| ckaps | https://mygos.mygeoportal.gov.my/gisserver/rest/services/KKM/FASILI… | official register | GET <MapServer>/5/query?where=OBJECTID=342530&outFields=*&f=json → NAMA_PENUH_FASILITI "ASTUTE CLINIC", ALAMAT "L2-18, DC MALL, DAMANSARA CITY, 6 JALAN DAMANLELA", POSKOD 50490 | 30 August 2026 |
| merits | https://merits.mmc.gov.my/viewDoctor/27883/search | official register | GET https://merits.mmc.gov.my/search/registeredDoctor?place-of-practice=ASTUTE then GET /viewDoctor/27883/search → YIP KHIN LOONG, Full Registration Number 45143, APC 2026 no. 71178, principal place of practice ASTUTE CLINIC, L2-18 DC MALL, 6 JALAN DAMANLELA, 50490 | 30 August 2026 |
| lcp | https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZzINFL8G6EjZSZy88kiB0YMSY4t… | official register | GET (CSV export of the MOH National Registry of RMP with LCP, Chapter 1 General Practitioner) → row 203: "YIP KHIN LOONG", MMC 45143, LCP-AMP-001/2018(16), Kuala Lumpur | 30 August 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 → 2 (Re-run against the legal-entity class (v1.2 pass 1): the clinic site was reloaded in full and names no legal entity.) |
| 30 August 2026 | Initial publication; every citation and the clinic site re-checked on this date. |
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.