Eyecare Associates, Inc., Pelham: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1023745478
- Legal business name
- Eyecare Associates, Inc.
- Registered trading name
- Eyecare Associates, Inc.
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 3429 Pelham Pkwy
Pelham, AL 35124-2009 - Phone on the record
- (205) 663-3937
- NPI issued
- August 5, 2022
- Record last updated by the practice
- August 5, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Birmingham, AL
- County
- Shelby County
- Locations under this name
- 30 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
30 locations nationally are registered under the same name, so pricing and policies are likely to be set at group level rather than at this office. The entry was last refreshed in August 2022. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 27 of 231 records were updated in 2024 or later and 126 predate 2020.
For local context: Pelham holds 10 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 9 of them optometry and 1 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 35124. 9 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Jill K. Meyer, O.D. P.C. in Pelham, 0.0 miles away.
None of this is a licensing check. CMS issues an NPI so a provider can be identified in billing transactions, and states plainly that issuance does not ensure or validate that the holder is licensed or credentialed. The Alabama boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Also registered at this address
1 other organization holds an NPI at the same street address. Shared suites and multi-specialty buildings are common, and it is worth knowing which entity you are actually booking with.
| Organization | Registered as | Record updated |
|---|---|---|
| Jill K. Meyer, O.D. P.C. | Optometry | March 2008 |
Nearest registered practices
181 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Birmingham metro itself there are 231, 9 of them elsewhere in Pelham. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jill K. Meyer, O.D. P.C. | Pelham | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (205) 663-3937 |
| West Point Optical Group | Pelham | Optometry | 1.0 mi | (205) 624-2015 |
| Family First Vision Care Kentucky | Pelham | Optometry | 1.0 mi | (205) 624-2015 |
| Shelby Family Eye Care, LLC | Alabaster | Optometry | 1.1 mi | (205) 624-2500 |
| Myeyedr. | Pelham | Optometry | 1.2 mi | (205) 987-2020 |
Distances are straight line between registered practice locations, not driving distance. Records placed at a ZIP centroid rather than a matched street address are excluded from this comparison.
What to expect to pay at an optometry practice like this
The NPI registry holds no prices, so nothing here is a quote from Eyecare Associates, Inc., and independent optometry practices do not publish fee schedules. Customers report paying $120 to $200 at this kind of practice without insurance, which is a reported band rather than a published price. The nearest published figure is $95, the median starting fee across the 1,280 US retail optical stores that print one (30 September 2026), and Medicare pays $149.64 for a comprehensive new-patient exam (CPT 92004). Ask Eyecare Associates, Inc. for its self-pay price.
Ask two things when you call: whether the quoted fee includes the refraction, and what a contact lens fitting adds if you wear lenses (the median published contact-lens fee is $129). A comprehensive exam is $80 to $120 at the middle half of stores that print a price. If price is the deciding factor, the 231 practices on the Birmingham page give you the full local field to call around.