Stiles Eye Group, Fort Smith: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1720705270
- Legal business name
- Dr. Steven B Stiles PA
- Registered trading name
- Stiles Eye Group
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 2401 S Waldron Rd
Fort Smith, AR 72903-3736 - Phone on the record
- (479) 452-2020
- NPI issued
- October 25, 2022
- Record last updated by the practice
- November 3, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Fort Smith, AR-OK
- County
- Sebastian County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Dr. Steven B Stiles PA and registered Stiles Eye Group as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. The entry was last refreshed in November 2022. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 5 of 27 records were updated in 2024 or later and 15 predate 2020.
For local context: Fort Smith holds 20 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 15 of them optometry and 5 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 72903. 18 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Dr. Mark's Eye Care, P.A. in Fort Smith, 0.2 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
31 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Fort Smith metro itself there are 27, 19 of them elsewhere in Fort Smith. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Mark's Eye Care, P.A. | Fort Smith | Optometry | 0.2 mi | (479) 452-0928 |
| Malcolm R Hutchins O D P A | Fort Smith | Optometry | 0.3 mi | (479) 452-1496 |
| Elite Vision, PLC | Fort Smith | Optometry | 0.3 mi | (479) 452-1496 |
| Center for Sight of Fort Smith PA | Fort Smith | Ophthalmology | 0.4 mi | (479) 646-3937 |
| Arkansas Vision Development Center PA | Fort Smith | Vision therapy | 0.8 mi | (479) 478-8860 |
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 Stiles Eye Group, 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 Stiles Eye Group 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 27 practices on the Fort Smith page give you the full local field to call around.