De la Pena Eye Clinic, A Medical Group, Santa Ana: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1376378257
- Legal business name
- First Choice Physician Partners
- Registered trading name
- De la Pena Eye Clinic, A Medical Group
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology (207W00000X)
- Other registered specialties
- Optometrist
- Practice location
- 1520 N Grand Ave
Santa Ana, CA 92701-2627 - Phone on the record
- (714) 558-1385
- NPI issued
- September 3, 2024
- Record last updated by the practice
- September 3, 2024
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
- County
- Orange County
- Locations under this name
- 8 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name First Choice Physician Partners and registered De la Pena Eye Clinic, A Medical Group as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. Beyond the primary code the record carries Optometrist, which is the registry's own signal that the practice covers more than routine work. 8 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 September 2024, putting it among the 305 of 1,867 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Santa Ana holds 42 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 25 of them optometry and 17 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 92701. 41 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is A. de la Pena MD, Amg, Inc. in Santa Ana, 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.
Also registered at this address
2 other organizations hold an NPI at the same street address. Shared suites and multi-specialty buildings are common, and it is worth knowing which entity you are actually booking with.
| Organization | Registered as | Record updated |
|---|---|---|
| A. de la Pena MD, Amg, Inc. | Ophthalmology | June 2013 |
| De la Pena Eye Clinic, Amg, Inc | Ophthalmology | February 2020 |
Nearest registered practices
990 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, 41 of them elsewhere in Santa Ana. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. de la Pena MD, Amg, Inc. | Santa Ana | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (714) 558-1385 |
| De la Pena Eye Clinic, Amg, Inc | Santa Ana | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (714) 558-1385 |
| Atlantis Eyecare | Santa Ana | Ophthalmology | 0.4 mi | (714) 984-0788 |
| Eyeschoice Optometry | Santa Ana | Optometry | 0.5 mi | (714) 543-9489 |
| Main Street Optometry | Santa Ana | Optometry | 0.9 mi | (714) 542-2226 |
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 De la Pena Eye Clinic, A Medical 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.