Arkansas Eye Care Group, Conway: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1033178736
- Legal business name
- Shane E. Ford OD PA
- Registered trading name
- Arkansas Eye Care Group
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 3005 Fountain Drive
Conway, AR 72034-3684 - Phone on the record
- (501) 329-9851
- NPI issued
- March 21, 2006
- Record last updated by the practice
- January 7, 2025
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR
- County
- Faulkner County
- Locations under this name
- 3 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Shane E. Ford OD PA and registered Arkansas Eye Care Group as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. 3 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 refreshed in January 2025, putting it among the 16 of 136 Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Conway holds 15 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 11 of them optometry and 4 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 72034. 2 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Cox Eye Care in Conway, 1.5 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
90 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway metro itself there are 136, 14 of them elsewhere in Conway. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cox Eye Care | Conway | Optometry | 1.5 mi | (501) 548-0226 |
| Hendrickson Eye Clinic PA | Conway | Ophthalmology | 1.7 mi | (501) 329-1151 |
| Visioncare Arkansas West | Conway | Optometry | 1.7 mi | (501) 548-0226 |
| Conway Optometry Associates PLLC | Conway | Optometry | 1.7 mi | (479) 856-9344 |
| Bryan Brown, OD LLC | Conway | Optometry | 1.7 mi | (501) 358-0471 |
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 Arkansas Eye Care Group. Based on this site's own price research, an independent optometry practice typically charges $120 to $200 for an exam without insurance, against a national average of about $136 and roughly $25 once a vision plan pays its share.
Ask two things when you call: whether the quoted fee includes the refraction, and what a contact lens fitting adds if you wear lenses, since that takes a visit to $150 to $370. A comprehensive exam is $100 to $250. If price is the deciding factor, the 136 practices on the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway page give you the full local field to call around.