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La Mesa, CA - NPI registry record

Acuity Eye Specialists, 5565 Grossmont Center Dr Ste 551, La Mesa: NPI Registry Record

Acuity Eye Specialists holds NPI 1053584474, registered with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as an ophthalmology organization under taxonomy code 207W00000X (Ophthalmology). The practice location on the record is 5565 Grossmont Center Dr Ste 551, La Mesa, CA 91942, inside the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad metropolitan statistical area area. The NPI was issued in April 2008, 18 years ago, and the practice last updated its own entry in July 2022.

What the registry record says

NPI number
1053584474
Legal business name
Trilogy Eye Medical Group, Inc
Registered trading name
Acuity Eye Specialists
Primary registered specialty
Ophthalmology (207W00000X)
Other registered specialties
Optometrist
Non eye care codes on the record
1 additional taxonomy code outside optometry and ophthalmology
Practice location
5565 Grossmont Center Dr Ste 551
La Mesa, CA 91942-3078
Phone on the record
(619) 465-2020
NPI issued
April 7, 2008
Record last updated by the practice
July 21, 2022
Registry status
NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
County
San Diego County
Parent organization
Trilogy Eye Medical Group, Inc
Organization subpart
Yes, this location bills as a subpart of a larger organization
Locations under this name
18 registered nationally
Location precision
Street address matched by the US Census geocoder

Reading this record

The practice bills under the legal name Trilogy Eye Medical Group, Inc and registered Acuity Eye Specialists 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 Optometrist, which is the registry's own signal that the practice covers more than routine work. CMS records this location as a subpart of Trilogy Eye Medical Group, Inc, meaning it bills under its own NPI but belongs to a larger organization. 18 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 2022. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 80 of 444 records were updated in 2024 or later and 251 predate 2020.

For local context: La Mesa holds 23 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 12 of them optometry and 11 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 91942. 7 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Lawrence S Rice, MD, A Medical Corporation in La Mesa, 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

1 other organization holds 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.

OrganizationRegistered asRecord updated
Acuity Eye GroupOphthalmologySeptember 2021

Nearest registered practices

369 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad metro itself there are 444, 22 of them elsewhere in La Mesa. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.

PracticeCityRegistered asDistancePhone on record
Lawrence S Rice, MD, A Medical CorporationLa MesaOphthalmology0.0 mi(619) 465-2020
Jeffrey P Wasserstrom MD A Medical CorporationLa MesaOphthalmology0.0 mi(619) 698-1088
Acuity Eye SpecialistsLa MesaOphthalmology0.0 mi(619) 697-4600
Retina Institute of CaliforniaLa MesaOphthalmology0.0 mi(619) 697-4600
Acuity Eye GroupLa MesaOphthalmology0.0 mi(619) 465-2020

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 Acuity Eye Specialists. 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 306 optometry practices on the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad page if you only need a prescription.

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Source and provenance. CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), NPI data dissemination file, August 2026 (August 2026, published August 2026 file). CMS NPI downloadable files. Licence: US federal public data, FOIA-disclosable, no charge; CMS deactivated-NPI display guidance honoured. NPI registry records from the CMS NPPES monthly file. An NPI is a billing identifier, not a licence: CMS does not verify that the holder is licensed or credentialed. Registry contact details are self-reported and are often years out of date. This directory lists organizations only. Individual practitioner records are never published here.

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Updated 2026-07-06