Acuity Eye Group, Glendale: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1518480615
- Legal business name
- Retina Institute of California Medical Group, A California Medical Par
- Registered trading name
- Acuity Eye Group
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology (207W00000X)
- Practice location
- 435 Arden Ave Ste 430
Glendale, CA 91203-4022 - Phone on the record
- (818) 539-8016
- NPI issued
- July 20, 2017
- Record last updated by the practice
- January 19, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
- County
- Los Angeles 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. 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 January 2022. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 305 of 1,867 records were updated in 2024 or later and 1,085 predate 2020.
For local context: Glendale holds 56 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 28 of them optometry and 28 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 91203. 41 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is California Eye and Ear Specialists in Glendale, 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
1,167 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metro itself there are 1,867, 55 of them elsewhere in Glendale. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| California Eye and Ear Specialists | Glendale | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (818) 539-8016 |
| Shakeh Bagdassar Eye to Eye Optometry | Glendale | Optometry | 0.2 mi | (818) 243-1111 |
| Greta Torossian, Optometric Corp. | Glendale | Optometry | 0.4 mi | (818) 956-3728 |
| Blue Eyes Optometry | Glendale | Optometry | 0.4 mi | (818) 507-6100 |
| Dr. Movses D'Janbatian, OD, Inc. | Glendale | Optometry | 0.4 mi | (818) 241-4921 |
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 Acuity Eye Group. 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 1,244 optometry practices on the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim page if you only need a prescription.