Southwest Eye Care Optometric Center, Bakersfield: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1538517438
- Legal business name
- Southwest Eye Care Optometric Center, Inc
- Registered trading name
- Southwest Eye Care Optometric Center
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 4649 Planz Rd
Bakersfield, CA 93309-5900 - Phone on the record
- (661) 833-4040
- NPI issued
- June 1, 2016
- Record last updated by the practice
- March 30, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Bakersfield-Delano, CA
- County
- Kern County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Southwest Eye Care Optometric Center, Inc and registered Southwest Eye Care Optometric Center as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. The entry was last refreshed in March 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. 30 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Sterling Visioncare in Bakersfield, 1.4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sterling Visioncare | Bakersfield | Optometry | 1.4 mi | (661) 834-0400 |
| America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses | Bakersfield | Optometry | 1.4 mi | (661) 527-6502 |
| Firstsight Vision Services, Inc. | Bakersfield | Optometry | 1.5 mi | (661) 397-9380 |
| Li & Liao Optometry PC | Bakersfield | Optometry | 1.6 mi | (661) 835-1104 |
| Ojitos Optometry | Bakersfield | Optometry | 2.0 mi | (661) 213-0252 |
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 Southwest Eye Care Optometric Center, 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 Southwest Eye Care Optometric Center 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.