Natural State Eyecare, Little Rock: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1124694450
- Legal business name
- Ryan Wood OD PLLC
- Registered trading name
- Natural State Eyecare
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 16901 Chenal Pkwy
Little Rock, AR 72223 - Phone on the record
- (501) 295-4011
- NPI issued
- May 27, 2021
- Record last updated by the practice
- March 25, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR
- County
- Pulaski County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Ryan Wood OD PLLC and registered Natural State Eyecare 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 March 2022. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 16 of 136 records were updated in 2024 or later and 87 predate 2020.
For local context: Little Rock holds 55 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 37 of them optometry and 18 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 72223. 47 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is James Eyecare Center, Inc in Little Rock, 0.7 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
122 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, 54 of them elsewhere in Little Rock. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Eyecare Center, Inc | Little Rock | Optometry | 0.7 mi | (501) 687-0826 |
| James Eyecare and Optics Gallery | Little Rock | Optometry | 0.7 mi | (501) 687-0826 |
| Capital Eye Care | Little Rock | Optometry | 2.1 mi | (501) 512-0190 |
| Pleasant Valley Ophthalmology, PLLC | Little Rock | Ophthalmology | 2.8 mi | (501) 223-3937 |
| Monica Verma MD, PA | Little Rock | Ophthalmology | 2.8 mi | (501) 747-1625 |
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 Natural State Eyecare. 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.