Dr Leo Kim
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 86.6/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #9 of 23 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Single-physician reconstructive plastic surgery practice at BMA House, Sydney CBD, with a stated focus on skin cancer reconstruction and eyelid surgery; also performs breast reduction. The responsible surgeon is named with role on the practice’s own site; medical and specialist registration in plastic surgery matched in the national register of practitioners.
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. Ahpra register record for Dr Leo Kyung Pil Kim (MED0001195893): registration status Registered, specialist registration Surgery / Plastic surgery — the specialty the practice advertises. [ahpra] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. |
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). Matched by registration number MED0001195893 in the Ahpra Register of practitioners; one direct match, registration status Registered, first registered 13/01/2008. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the number is not printed on the clinic's own pages (audit not_published) — matched by name] [ahpra] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Record found: name, address and status match. Site names St Luke's Hospital as an operating location; it carries a NSW licence with the class "Cosmetic surgery". [site] [nsw-overnight] |
OFF | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability The clinic names the legal entity or the responsible person in its legal notice and the record is found by name; or the number the clinic publishes leads to an entity with a different name that is tied to this location by the same address or the same responsible person. Matched by name and location in the Australian Business Register (not self-published on the clinic site). [abr] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Partial, without issuers. Qualification claimed (FRACS) without a published registration number on the practice's own site. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty No pattern from the lexicon found. |
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 One. Risks disclaimer published; no consent, aftercare, revision-policy or complaint-route document found. [site-about] |
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 Leo Kim [asps] | Specialist plastic and reconstructive surgeon | MED0001195893 |
Legal entity: Leo Kim · ABN 87 741 883 255 [abr]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
- Rhinoplasty: verified no
- Breast surgery: verified yes →
- Liposuction & body contouring: verified no
- Hair transplant: verified no
- Injectables: verified no
- Medical weight loss: verified no
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://drleokim.com.au/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | 1300 663 767 |
| Address | BMA House, Suite 904, Level 9, 135 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000 |
| City | Sydney |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://drleokim.com.au/ | clinic's own site | physician, role, address, menu | 30 August 2026 |
| site-about | https://drleokim.com.au/about/ | clinic's own site | risks disclaimer | 30 August 2026 |
| asps | https://plasticsurgery.org.au/surgeon/dr-leo-kim/ | secondary | ASPS member page: specialist plastic surgeon, AHPRA ID, hospital affiliations | 30 August 2026 |
| nsw-overnight | https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Hospitals/privatehealth/Pages/list-ov… | official register | facility register: St Luke's Hospital PH504, class Cosmetic surgery | 30 August 2026 |
| abr | https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?abn=87741883255 | official register | legal entity ABN 87 741 883 255, entity name KIM, LEO, main business location NSW 2113 | 30 August 2026 |
| hccc | https://www.hccc.nsw.gov.au/Decisions-Orders/register-of-prohibitio… | official register | NSW Health Care Complaints Commission prohibition-order register queried by surname, no entry | 30 August 2026 |
| ahpra | https://www.ahpra.gov.au/registration/registers-of-practitioners.aspx | official register | Register of practitioners, searched by registration number (form field name-reg = MED0001195893, then the record view): Dr Leo Kyung Pil Kim, Medical Practitioner, registration number MED0001195893, registration status Registered, conditions / undertakings / reprimands None, date of first registration 13/01/2008, specialist registration Surgery / Plastic surgery | 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 | summary: null → null (Summary re-worded: the specialist claim is now carried by the national register of practitioners, not by a society directory.) |
| 20 September 2026 | facts: "M1 secondary finding (society directory)" → null (The specialist register is reachable and M1 is scored from it; the card fact recorded under the closed-register rule no longer applies.) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M3: null → 5 (Re-run against the Ahpra Register of practitioners (v1.2 loop pass 1): placeholder retry replaced by a live lookup on the registration number.) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M1: null → 5 (Re-run against the Ahpra Register of practitioners (v1.2 loop pass 1): the register answers a plain form POST to a short tool user agent, so M1 is scored from the official register.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M1: 2 → null (Methodology v1.2 (owner ruling 2026-09-18): M1 is not scored where the country's specialist register is closed; the secondary finding moved to facts[]) |
| 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.