University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1275917809
- Legal business name
- University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 4301 W Markham St 783
Little Rock, AR 72205 - Phone on the record
- (501) 686-8000
- NPI issued
- July 14, 2015
- Record last updated by the practice
- November 30, 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
- Parent organization
- University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
- Organization subpart
- Yes, this location bills as a subpart of a larger organization
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
CMS records this location as a subpart of University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, meaning it bills under its own NPI but belongs to a larger organization. The entry was last refreshed in November 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 72205. 38 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Deer Eye Clinic PA in Little Rock, 0.5 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
127 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deer Eye Clinic PA | Little Rock | Ophthalmology | 0.5 mi | (501) 224-4701 |
| Hardberger Eye Center | Little Rock | Ophthalmology | 0.6 mi | (501) 661-0450 |
| Lieblong Eye Center | Little Rock | Ophthalmology | 0.6 mi | (501) 661-0450 |
| Central Arkansas LASIK | Little Rock | Ophthalmology | 0.6 mi | (501) 712-5200 |
| Central Arkansas Ophthalmology | Little Rock | Ophthalmology | 0.7 mi | (501) 664-5354 |
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 University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. 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.