Community Eye Center Optometry, Los Angeles: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1790730521
- Legal business name
- Hilary L. Hawhorne, O.D., an Optometric Corporation
- Registered trading name
- Community Eye Center Optometry
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 953 W 85TH St
Los Angeles, CA 90044-4919 - Phone on the record
- (323) 778-7799
- NPI issued
- May 23, 2006
- Record last updated by the practice
- March 7, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
- County
- Los Angeles County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Hilary L. Hawhorne, O.D., an Optometric Corporation and registered Community Eye Center Optometry 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 2023. 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: Los Angeles holds 207 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 119 of them optometry and 88 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 90044. 5 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Manchester Optometry Eye Care in Los Angeles, 1.1 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
1,354 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, 206 of them elsewhere in Los Angeles. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manchester Optometry Eye Care | Los Angeles | Optometry | 1.1 mi | (323) 756-1114 |
| Loren D Smith OD Inc | Los Angeles | Optometry | 2.2 mi | (323) 756-3937 |
| Century Park Optometry APC | Inglewood | Optometry | 2.7 mi | (310) 330-0180 |
| Shenila Rajani OD Inc | Inglewood | Optometry | 2.7 mi | (310) 330-0180 |
| La Eye Center and Clinic | Los Angeles | Optometry | 2.9 mi | (323) 232-1234 |
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 Community Eye Center Optometry. 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 1,867 practices on the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim page give you the full local field to call around.