Golden Optometric Group, West Covina: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1649216672
- Legal business name
- Sheldon M. Golden OD, Optometric Corporation
- Registered trading name
- Golden Optometric Group
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 1026 W West Covina Pkwy Ste B
West Covina, CA 91790-2810 - Phone on the record
- (626) 962-5868
- NPI issued
- June 20, 2006
- Record last updated by the practice
- May 3, 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
- Parent organization
- Sheldon M. Golden Od,optometric Corporation
- Organization subpart
- Yes, this location bills as a subpart of a larger organization
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Sheldon M. Golden OD, Optometric Corporation and registered Golden Optometric Group as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. CMS records this location as a subpart of Sheldon M. Golden Od,optometric Corporation, meaning it bills under its own NPI but belongs to a larger organization. The entry was last refreshed in May 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: West Covina holds 18 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 14 of them optometry and 4 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 91790. No other practice in the city took its NPI earlier than this one, which makes it the longest-registered address here. The closest is Advanced Eye Institute in West Covina, 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
1,157 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, 17 of them elsewhere in West Covina. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Eye Institute | West Covina | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (626) 593-4234 |
| Puente Hills Optometry Inc. | West Covina | Optometry | 0.2 mi | (626) 960-5537 |
| Lam Optometry, Inc | West Covina | Optometry | 0.4 mi | (626) 233-0649 |
| Specialty Eye Care Medical Center, Inc. | West Covina | Ophthalmology | 1.0 mi | (818) 265-7777 |
| California Oculoplastic Consultants | West Covina | Ophthalmology | 1.0 mi | (626) 653-9444 |
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 Golden Optometric Group. 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.