Mertins Family Eye Care, Inc., Fayetteville: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1114052164
- Legal business name
- Mertins Family Eye Care, Inc.
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Non eye care codes on the record
- 1 additional taxonomy code outside optometry and ophthalmology
- Practice location
- 640 N Garland Ave Ste 110
Fayetteville, AR 72701-3072 - Phone on the record
- (479) 442-8400
- NPI issued
- February 22, 2007
- Record last updated by the practice
- March 18, 2024
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR
- County
- Washington County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The entry was refreshed in March 2024, putting it among the 20 of 73 Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Fayetteville holds 26 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 17 of them optometry and 9 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 72701. 6 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Robert Edward Martin in Fayetteville, 0.4 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 Arkansas boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
69 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers metro itself there are 73, 25 of them elsewhere in Fayetteville. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Edward Martin | Fayetteville | Optometry | 0.4 mi | (479) 442-8961 |
| Austin Vision Care, P.A. | Fayetteville | Optometry | 1.2 mi | (479) 527-0100 |
| The Exclusive Eye, PLLC | Fayetteville | Optometry | 1.5 mi | (479) 903-7393 |
| Fayetteville Eyecare Clinic | Fayetteville | Optometry | 1.5 mi | (479) 442-8961 |
| Jim Sharp MD | Fayetteville | Optometry | 1.7 mi | (479) 521-4949 |
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 Mertins Family Eye Care, 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 Mertins Family Eye Care, 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 73 practices on the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers page give you the full local field to call around.