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La Mesa, CA - NPI registry record

Buitique Optometry, La Mesa: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context

Buitique Optometry holds NPI 1598506867, registered with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as an optometry organization under taxonomy code 152W00000X (Optometrist). The practice location on the record is 5020 Baltimore Dr, Ste B, La Mesa, CA 91942, inside the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad metropolitan statistical area area. The NPI was issued in June 2024, 2 years ago, and the practice last updated its own entry in January 2026.

What the registry record says

NPI number
1598506867
Legal business name
Tina Bui OD Inc
Registered trading name
Buitique Optometry
Primary registered specialty
Optometrist (152W00000X)
Practice location
5020 Baltimore Dr, Ste B
La Mesa, CA 91942-0692
Phone on the record
(619) 464-8303
NPI issued
June 3, 2024
Record last updated by the practice
January 21, 2026
Registry status
NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
County
San Diego County
Location precision
Street address matched by the US Census geocoder

Reading this record

The practice bills under the legal name Tina Bui OD Inc and registered Buitique 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 January 2026, putting it among the 83 of 446 San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.

For local context: La Mesa holds 24 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 13 of them optometry and 11 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 91942. 22 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Giles Optometry in La Mesa, 0.3 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

365 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 446, 23 of them elsewhere in La Mesa. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.

PracticeCityRegistered asDistancePhone on record
Giles OptometryLa MesaOptometry0.3 mi(619) 405-8381
Family I CareLa MesaOptometry0.3 mi(619) 461-4913
Vision Solutions Optometry, Inc.La MesaOptometry0.3 mi(619) 461-4913
Paul L Treger MD A Medical CorporationLa MesaOphthalmology0.3 mi(619) 460-9077
La Mesa Vision Care Center OptometryLa MesaOptometry0.4 mi(619) 466-5665

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 Buitique 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 Buitique 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 446 practices on the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad page give you the full local field to call around.

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Source and provenance. CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), NPI data dissemination file, August 2026 (October 2026, published October 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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