Visionworks, 3431 W Frye Rd Ste 1, Chandler: NPI Registry Record
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1174627202
- Legal business name
- Tom Sowash OD & Associates PC
- Registered trading name
- Visionworks
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 3431 W Frye Rd Ste 1
Chandler, AZ 85226-5267 - Phone on the record
- (480) 782-9658
- NPI issued
- September 11, 2006
- Record last updated by the practice
- September 2, 2025
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ
- County
- Maricopa County
- Locations under this name
- 25 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Tom Sowash OD & Associates PC and registered Visionworks as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. 25 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 name matches the Visionworks retail brand, which sits at the $50 to $110 end of the exam price range rather than the independent-practice end. The entry was refreshed in September 2025, putting it among the 193 of 613 Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Chandler holds 46 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 44 of them optometry and 2 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 85226. 3 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Dr. Nez and Associates Inc in Chandler, 1.0 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 Arizona boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
422 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler metro itself there are 613, 45 of them elsewhere in Chandler. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Nez and Associates Inc | Chandler | Optometry | 1.0 mi | (480) 726-7009 |
| DN&A Eyecare PLLC | Chandler | Optometry | 1.0 mi | (480) 726-7009 |
| 2020 Image Chandler | Chandler | Optometry | 1.5 mi | (480) 820-9880 |
| Your Eyes Only Optical, PLLC | Chandler | Optometry | 1.9 mi | (480) 963-3221 |
| Falcon Family Eye Care, P.C. | Chandler | Optometry | 2.1 mi | (480) 383-9956 |
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 Visionworks, 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 Visionworks 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 613 practices on the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler page give you the full local field to call around.