Acuity Eye Group, 2323 16TH St Ste 400, Bakersfield: NPI Registry Record
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1568182699
- Legal business name
- Retina Institute of California Medical Group, A California Medical Par
- Registered trading name
- Acuity Eye Group
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Other registered specialties
- Ophthalmology
- Practice location
- 2323 16TH St Ste 400
Bakersfield, CA 93301-3454 - Phone on the record
- (661) 479-0757
- NPI issued
- August 30, 2022
- Record last updated by the practice
- August 30, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Bakersfield-Delano, CA
- County
- Kern County
- Locations under this name
- 38 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Retina Institute of California Medical Group, A California Medical Par and registered Acuity Eye Group as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. Beyond the primary code the record carries Ophthalmology, which is the registry's own signal that the practice covers more than routine work. 38 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 last refreshed in August 2022. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 15 of 66 records were updated in 2024 or later and 37 predate 2020.
For local context: Bakersfield holds 55 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 35 of them optometry and 20 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 93301. 43 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Richard Ling, M.D., Inc. in Bakersfield, 0.1 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 California boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
54 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Bakersfield-Delano metro itself there are 66, 54 of them elsewhere in Bakersfield. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Ling, M.D., Inc. | Bakersfield | Ophthalmology | 0.1 mi | (661) 321-9633 |
| Steve Ratty Optometrist Inc | Bakersfield | Optometry | 0.5 mi | (661) 327-2681 |
| Louis Allen OD Inc | Bakersfield | Optometry | 0.6 mi | (661) 636-0581 |
| George Alexandrakis M D Inc | Bakersfield | Ophthalmology | 0.6 mi | (661) 323-4200 |
| Optos Inc. | Bakersfield | Ophthalmology | 0.6 mi | (661) 323-4200 |
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 Acuity 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 Acuity 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 66 practices on the Bakersfield-Delano page give you the full local field to call around.