Desert Eyeworks Optometry, Palm Desert: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1659500726
- Legal business name
- Serena Ho O D A Professional Corporation
- Registered trading name
- Desert Eyeworks Optometry
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist, Corneal and Contact Management (152WC0802X)
- Practice location
- 73111 Country Club Dr, Ste #b-3
Palm Desert, CA 92260-2340 - Phone on the record
- (760) 779-8282
- NPI issued
- July 9, 2009
- Record last updated by the practice
- March 4, 2026
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA
- County
- Riverside County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Serena Ho O D A Professional Corporation and registered Desert Eyeworks Optometry as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. The entry was refreshed in March 2026, putting it among the 84 of 438 Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
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. 8 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Coachella Valley Eye Institute PC in Rancho Mirage, 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coachella Valley Eye Institute PC | Rancho Mirage | Ophthalmology | 0.2 mi | (510) 847-6567 |
| Coachella Valley Retina | Rancho Mirage | Ophthalmology | 0.9 mi | (760) 895-1993 |
| Coachella Valley Retina | Rancho Mirage | Ophthalmology | 0.9 mi | (760) 895-1993 |
| Shaaf Eye Center PC | Rancho Mirage | Ophthalmology | 1.1 mi | (760) 346-5005 |
| Doheny Eye Medical Group, Inc | Rancho Mirage | Ophthalmology | 1.1 mi | (760) 320-2133 |
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 Desert Eyeworks 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 Desert Eyeworks 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 438 practices on the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario page give you the full local field to call around.