Marsha Howard,od & Associates, Signal Hill: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1437892957
- Legal business name
- Marsha Howard Optometric Corp
- Registered trading name
- Marsha Howard,od & Associates
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 2200 E Willow St
Signal Hill, CA 90755-2132 - Phone on the record
- (562) 427-8285
- NPI issued
- April 14, 2022
- Record last updated by the practice
- April 14, 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
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Marsha Howard Optometric Corp and registered Marsha Howard,od & Associates 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 April 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: Signal Hill holds 1 registered eye care practice in this snapshot, 1 of them optometry and 0 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 90755. No other practice in the city took its NPI earlier than this one, which makes it the longest-registered address here. The closest is Hertzog Optical, LLC in Long Beach, 0.9 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
1,410 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. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hertzog Optical, LLC | Long Beach | Ophthalmology | 0.9 mi | (562) 595-8587 |
| Oc Glaucoma | Long Beach | Ophthalmology | 1.2 mi | (949) 478-2027 |
| Apex Retina Institute | Long Beach | Retina | 1.2 mi | (562) 534-1777 |
| Donald N. Schwartz, M.D., A Medical Corp | Long Beach | Ophthalmology | 1.3 mi | (562) 427-5409 |
| Matthew Sloan, M.D. A Medical Corporation | Long Beach | Ophthalmology | 1.3 mi | (562) 427-5409 |
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 Marsha Howard,od & Associates. 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.