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 August 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 78 of 435 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 435, 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. 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 435 practices on the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario page give you the full local field to call around.