Fuerst Eye Center, 1808 Verdugo Blvd Ste 103, Glendale: NPI Registry Record
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1538272000
- Legal business name
- David J Fuerst MD Inc
- Registered trading name
- Fuerst Eye Center
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology (207W00000X)
- Practice location
- 1808 Verdugo Blvd Ste 103
Glendale, CA 91208-1482 - Phone on the record
- (818) 957-2020
- NPI issued
- August 17, 2006
- Record last updated by the practice
- June 17, 2025
- 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 David J Fuerst MD Inc and registered Fuerst Eye 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 refreshed in June 2025, 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: Glendale holds 56 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 28 of them optometry and 28 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 91208. 6 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Retina Consultants of Los Angeles, Inc. 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.
Also registered at this address
1 other organization holds 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nanar Hovasapian OD Corporation | Corneal and contact lens management | October 2025 |
Nearest registered practices
1,127 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retina Consultants of Los Angeles, Inc. | Glendale | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (818) 790-7611 |
| Jeannine Scheinhorn MD, A Medical Corporation | Glendale | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (818) 790-0702 |
| Jessica J Wong, MD, Inc | Glendale | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (818) 928-1045 |
| Fuerst Eye Center | Glendale | Cornea and external disease | 0.0 mi | (818) 957-2020 |
| Nanar Hovasapian OD Corporation | Glendale | Corneal and contact lens management | 0.0 mi | (310) 906-0393 |
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 Fuerst Eye Center. 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.