Southern Focus Vision Center, Gardendale: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1275617227
- Legal business name
- Light and Vision, Inc
- Registered trading name
- Southern Focus Vision Center
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Other registered specialties
- Optometrist, Corneal and Contact Management; Optometrist, Sports Vision
- Practice location
- 754 Main Street
Gardendale, AL 35071-2696 - Phone on the record
- (205) 631-7700
- NPI issued
- October 25, 2006
- Record last updated by the practice
- January 30, 2025
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Birmingham, AL
- County
- Jefferson County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Light and Vision, Inc and registered Southern Focus Vision Center as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. Beyond the primary code the record carries Optometrist, Corneal and Contact Management and Optometrist, Sports Vision, which is the registry's own signal that the practice covers more than routine work. The entry was refreshed in January 2025, putting it among the 27 of 231 Birmingham records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Gardendale holds 3 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 3 of them optometry and 0 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 35071. No other practice in the city took its NPI earlier than this one, which makes it the longest-registered address here. The closest is West Point Optical Group in Gardendale, 0.9 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.
Nearest registered practices
185 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, 2 of them elsewhere in Gardendale. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Point Optical Group | Gardendale | Optometry | 0.9 mi | (205) 608-8222 |
| Family First Vision Care Kentucky | Gardendale | Optometry | 0.9 mi | (205) 608-8222 |
| America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses | Fultondale | Optometry | 2.6 mi | (205) 946-2720 |
| Amg Pharmacy Inc | Birmingham | Optometry | 6.6 mi | (205) 325-7001 |
| The Eyecare Place, Inc. | Center Point | Optometry | 7.3 mi | (205) 856-1522 |
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 Southern Focus Vision Center, 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 Southern Focus Vision Center 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.