Glendale Eye Medical Group, Glendale: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1710962865
- Legal business name
- James McCaffery MD A Professional Corp
- Registered trading name
- Glendale Eye Medical Group
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology (207W00000X)
- Practice location
- 500 N Central Ave Ste 400
Glendale, CA 91203-1928 - Phone on the record
- (818) 956-1010
- NPI issued
- December 13, 2005
- Record last updated by the practice
- October 10, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
- County
- Los Angeles County
- Locations under this name
- 2 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name James McCaffery MD A Professional Corp and registered Glendale Eye Medical Group as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. 2 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 October 2022. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 325 of 1,876 records were updated in 2024 or later and 1,079 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. No other practice in the city took its NPI earlier than this one, which makes it the longest-registered address here. The closest is Richard A. Weise, M.D., A Medical Corporation 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Richard A. Weise, M.D., A Medical Corporation | Ophthalmology | February 2024 |
Nearest registered practices
1,184 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 1,876, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard A. Weise, M.D., A Medical Corporation | Glendale | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (818) 956-1010 |
| Kent W Small, MD A Medical Corporation | Glendale | Ophthalmology | 0.1 mi | (818) 552-5040 |
| Specialty Eye Care Medical Center, Inc. | Glendale | Ophthalmology | 0.1 mi | (818) 265-7777 |
| Eye Care First , A Medical Group,inc. | Glendale | Ophthalmology | 0.1 mi | (818) 507-0055 |
| Greta Torossian, Optometric Corp. | Glendale | Optometry | 0.3 mi | (818) 956-3728 |
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 Glendale Eye Medical Group, and ophthalmology practices do not publish fee schedules. Customers report paying $150 to $300 or more 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 Glendale Eye Medical Group for its self-pay price.
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 1,249 optometry practices on the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim page if you only need a prescription.