Bakersfield Eye Care Optometric Center SW, Bakersfield: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1679302715
- Legal business name
- Fifth Optometric Care of California
- Registered trading name
- Bakersfield Eye Care Optometric Center SW
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 11320 Ming Ave Ste 360
Bakersfield, CA 93311-1304 - Phone on the record
- (661) 847-9870
- NPI issued
- July 29, 2024
- Record last updated by the practice
- July 29, 2024
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Bakersfield-Delano, CA
- County
- Kern County
- Locations under this name
- 11 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Fifth Optometric Care of California and registered Bakersfield Eye Care Optometric Center SW as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. 11 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 July 2024, putting it among the 15 of 66 Bakersfield-Delano records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Bakersfield holds 55 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 35 of them optometry and 20 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 93311. 50 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Bakersfield Eye Care Optometric Center in Bakersfield, 0.0 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
56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bakersfield Eye Care Optometric Center | Bakersfield | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (661) 847-9870 |
| K K Optometric Eye Care | Bakersfield | Optometry | 0.6 mi | (661) 282-2836 |
| Clear Point Optometry | Bakersfield | Optometry | 1.1 mi | (661) 206-2830 |
| Chahal Medical Group Inc. | Bakersfield | Oculoplastic and reconstructive surgery | 1.4 mi | (661) 215-6100 |
| Acuity Eye Group | Bakersfield | Ophthalmology | 1.6 mi | (661) 663-8500 |
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 Bakersfield Eye Care Optometric Center SW. 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 66 practices on the Bakersfield-Delano page give you the full local field to call around.