Grossmont Vision Center Optometry, 5500 Grossmont Center Dr Ste 215, La Mesa: NPI Registry Record
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1396656526
- Legal business name
- Stephanie Cao, O.D., Inc.
- Registered trading name
- Grossmont Vision Center Optometry
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 5500 Grossmont Center Dr Ste 215
La Mesa, CA 91942-3091 - Phone on the record
- (619) 469-0131
- NPI issued
- September 16, 2026
- Record last updated by the practice
- September 16, 2026
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA
- County
- San Diego County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Stephanie Cao, O.D., Inc. and registered Grossmont Vision Center 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 September 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. 23 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Firstsight Vision Services, Inc. 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.
Nearest registered practices
370 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.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firstsight Vision Services, Inc. | La Mesa | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (619) 460-4393 |
| Grossmont Vision Center Optometry | La Mesa | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (619) 469-0131 |
| Acuity Eye Specialists | La Mesa | Ophthalmology | 0.1 mi | (619) 465-2020 |
| Lawrence S Rice, MD, A Medical Corporation | La Mesa | Ophthalmology | 0.1 mi | (619) 465-2020 |
| Jeffrey P Wasserstrom MD A Medical Corporation | La Mesa | Ophthalmology | 0.1 mi | (619) 698-1088 |
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 Grossmont Vision Center 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 Grossmont Vision Center 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.