In April 2019, Trek–Segafredo announced that Pantano had been 'immediately suspended' from the team after being notified that he had returned an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for EPO in a doping test carried out on 26 February. As a result of the AAF, he was provisionally suspended from the sport by the UCI, the sport's international governing body. In June 2019, he announced his retirement from professional racing.