Helm Vision Group, Valencia: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1982759734
- Legal business name
- Craig Helm M D A Professional Corporation
- Registered trading name
- Helm Vision Group
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology (207W00000X)
- Practice location
- 27420 Tourney Road, Suite 100
Valencia, CA 91355-5631 - Phone on the record
- (661) 259-3937
- NPI issued
- January 24, 2007
- Record last updated by the practice
- November 1, 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 Craig Helm M D A Professional Corporation and registered Helm Vision Group 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 November 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: Valencia holds 18 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 11 of them optometry and 7 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 91355. No other practice in the city took its NPI earlier than this one, which makes it the longest-registered address here. The closest is Dr. Daniel Sjolund and Dr. Alice Sun, Optometric Corporation in Santa Clarita, 0.2 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
271 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 Valencia. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Daniel Sjolund and Dr. Alice Sun, Optometric Corporation | Santa Clarita | Optometry | 0.2 mi | (661) 259-1662 |
| Evergreen Retina Inc A Professional Medical Corporation | Valencia | Retina | 0.2 mi | (661) 455-7797 |
| Vivid Visions Optometry, Inc | Valencia | Optometry | 0.3 mi | (661) 310-0603 |
| Teagle Optometry | Valencia | Optometry | 0.9 mi | (661) 253-3888 |
| Valencia Eyecare Optometry | Valencia | Optometry | 1.2 mi | (661) 294-2733 |
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 Helm Vision 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.