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 October 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 18 of 137 records were updated in 2024 or later and 86 predate 2020.
For local context: Little Rock holds 54 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 36 of them optometry and 18 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 72205. 37 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
128 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 137, 53 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, 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 University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 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 137 practices on the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway page give you the full local field to call around.