Valley Mall Optometry, El Monte: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1881981520
- Legal business name
- Donna M Hong OD Inc
- Registered trading name
- Valley Mall Optometry
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 10906 Valley Mall
El Monte, CA 91731-2616 - Phone on the record
- (626) 579-2020
- NPI issued
- July 1, 2011
- Record last updated by the practice
- July 23, 2023
- 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
- 4 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Donna M Hong OD Inc and registered Valley Mall Optometry as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. 4 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 July 2023. 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: El Monte holds 13 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 10 of them optometry and 3 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 91731. 8 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Dr. Mylinh Lam O.d, Inc in El Monte, 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
1,359 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, 12 of them elsewhere in El Monte. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Mylinh Lam O.d, Inc | El Monte | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (626) 444-0369 |
| Eddie M Garcia A Professional Corporation | El Monte | Ophthalmology | 0.2 mi | (626) 443-1282 |
| De la Pena Eye Clinic, A Medical Group | El Monte | Ophthalmology | 0.2 mi | (323) 728-5500 |
| Steven L Johnson an Optometric Corporation | El Monte | Optometry | 0.6 mi | (626) 448-6046 |
| El Monte Optometry Inc | El Monte | Optometry | 0.9 mi | (626) 443-8226 |
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 Valley Mall Optometry, and independent optometry practices do not publish fee schedules. Customers report paying $120 to $200 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 Valley Mall Optometry for its self-pay price.
Ask two things when you call: whether the quoted fee includes the refraction, and what a contact lens fitting adds if you wear lenses (the median published contact-lens fee is $129). A comprehensive exam is $80 to $120 at the middle half of stores that print a price. If price is the deciding factor, the 1,876 practices on the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim page give you the full local field to call around.