Pediatric Eye Care Los Angeles, Redondo Beach: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1982303269
- Legal business name
- Alex de Castro-Abeger, MD
- Registered trading name
- Pediatric Eye Care Los Angeles
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology, Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Specialist (207WX0110X)
- Other registered specialties
- Ophthalmology
- Practice location
- 1636 Aviation Blvd # 202
Redondo Beach, CA 90278-2851 - Phone on the record
- (310) 374-2727
- NPI issued
- February 27, 2023
- Record last updated by the practice
- March 3, 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 Alex de Castro-Abeger, MD and registered Pediatric Eye Care Los Angeles as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. Beyond the primary code the record carries Ophthalmology, which is the registry's own signal that the practice covers more than routine work. The entry was last refreshed in March 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: Redondo Beach holds 11 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 7 of them optometry and 4 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 90278. 9 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Visionary Optometry Inc. in Hermosa Beach, 0.6 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
1,097 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, 10 of them elsewhere in Redondo Beach. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visionary Optometry Inc. | Hermosa Beach | Optometry | 0.6 mi | (310) 372-5213 |
| Eyes of Hermosa Optometry | Hermosa Beach | Optometry | 0.6 mi | (310) 938-4266 |
| C .well Vision Care | Hermosa Beach | Optometry | 0.6 mi | (310) 933-5035 |
| Southbay Galleria Optometric | Redondo Beach | Optometry | 0.7 mi | (310) 370-9598 |
| Robert Scott Kapust OD Inc | Hermosa Beach | Optometry | 0.8 mi | (310) 374-9899 |
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 Pediatric Eye Care Los Angeles. 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.