Why did a Miami plastic surgery center get suspended? Illegal liposuction
There’s a limit to how much fat you can remove during a surgery procedure in Florida and a plastic surgery center in a Doral strip mall exceeded that limit during a liposuction.
So, Dr. Carlos Verdeza’s G-Nouva agreed to a office surgery license suspension that’ll end July 10. It began Thursday, June 26, exactly six years after Verdeza received the license for the surgery center at 2475 NW 85th Ave.
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Verdeza’s license as a medical doctor remains clean even though the Florida Department of Health administrative complaint says the surgery was performed by “Dr. C.V.” Verdeza’s the only medical doctor listed among G-Nouva’s staff with those initials.
Verdeza, as G-Nouva’s owner, must reimburse the Department of Health’s case costs, $1,016.
Per the complaint, a woman came to G-Nouva on Oct. 13, 2022 for several cosmetic surgery procedures, namely a liposuction in the abdomen, flanks (aka “love handles”) and back.
Florida Administrative Code “provides thatmajor liposuction in excess of 1000cc supernatant fat may not be performed in a remote location from any other procedure,” the state complaint said. “Major liposuction in excess of 1000cc supernatant fat in a remote location from any other procedure was performed on or about Oct. 13, 2022, at (G-Nouva).”
