California Retina Consultants, Bakersfield: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1083757322
- Legal business name
- California Retina Consultants
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology, Retina Specialist (207WX0107X)
- Non eye care codes on the record
- 1 additional taxonomy code outside optometry and ophthalmology
- Practice location
- 5555 Business Park S Ste 100
Bakersfield, CA 93309-1678 - Phone on the record
- (661) 325-4393
- NPI issued
- February 15, 2007
- Record last updated by the practice
- July 20, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Bakersfield-Delano, CA
- County
- Kern County
- Locations under this name
- 10 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
10 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 July 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 93309. 8 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Triangle Eye Institute in Bakersfield, 0.2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Triangle Eye Institute | Bakersfield | Ophthalmology | 0.2 mi | (661) 631-2020 |
| Penelope S. Suter, O.D., an Optometric Professional Corporation | Bakersfield | Optometry | 0.2 mi | (661) 869-2010 |
| Stockdale Optometry | Bakersfield | Optometry | 0.6 mi | (661) 831-8952 |
| Modern Aesthetic Institute Inc. | Bakersfield | Oculoplastic and reconstructive surgery | 0.8 mi | (805) 565-5700 |
| Advanced Center for Eye Care | Bakersfield | Ophthalmology | 0.8 mi | (661) 283-4964 |
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 ophthalmology practice like this
The NPI registry holds no prices, so nothing here is a quote from California Retina Consultants. Based on this site's own price research, an ophthalmology practice typically charges $150 to $300 or more for an exam without insurance, against a national average of about $136 and roughly $25 once a vision plan pays its share.
Ophthalmology visits are usually medical rather than routine, which changes who pays: medical insurance and Medicare Part B cover a medically necessary exam, while a routine refraction for glasses is normally not covered. Ask whether the visit will be billed as medical or routine before you book, and compare with the 46 optometry practices on the Bakersfield-Delano page if you only need a prescription.