Acuity Optical, Palm Desert: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1457004392
- Legal business name
- Retina Institute of California Medical Group, A California Medical Par
- Registered trading name
- Acuity Optical
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 73180 El Paseo
Palm Desert, CA 92260-4218 - Phone on the record
- (760) 437-9980
- NPI issued
- February 1, 2022
- Record last updated by the practice
- February 1, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA
- County
- Riverside County
- Locations under this name
- 38 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Retina Institute of California Medical Group, A California Medical Par and registered Acuity Optical as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. 38 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 February 2022. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 84 of 438 records were updated in 2024 or later and 249 predate 2020.
For local context: Palm Desert holds 20 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 11 of them optometry and 9 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 92260. 18 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Trilogy Eye Medical Group, Inc. in Palm Desert, 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.
Also registered at this address
2 other organizations hold an NPI at the same street address. Shared suites and multi-specialty buildings are common, and it is worth knowing which entity you are actually booking with.
| Organization | Registered as | Record updated |
|---|---|---|
| Trilogy Eye Medical Group, Inc. | Optometry | February 2019 |
| Retina Institute of California Medical Group | Optometry | August 2025 |
Nearest registered practices
63 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metro itself there are 438, 19 of them elsewhere in Palm Desert. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trilogy Eye Medical Group, Inc. | Palm Desert | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (760) 490-0068 |
| Retina Institute of California Medical Group | Palm Desert | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (760) 437-9980 |
| Thanh-VI Nguyen, O.D., Inc. | Palm Desert | Optometry | 0.4 mi | (760) 341-2675 |
| Lawrence C Watson OD A Professional Optometric Corp. | Palm Desert | Optometry | 0.6 mi | (760) 346-1136 |
| Advanced Optometry | Palm Desert | Optometry | 0.7 mi | (760) 776-9767 |
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 Acuity Optical, 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 Acuity Optical 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 438 practices on the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario page give you the full local field to call around.