Retina Consultants San Diego Inc, Poway: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1790736098
- Legal business name
- Retina Consultants San Diego Inc
- Registered trading name
- Retina Consultants San Diego Inc
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology (207W00000X)
- Practice location
- 12630 Monte Vista Rd, Suite 104
Poway, CA 92064-2526 - Phone on the record
- (858) 451-1911
- NPI issued
- May 12, 2006
- Record last updated by the practice
- February 6, 2024
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA
- County
- San Diego County
- Locations under this name
- 2 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
2 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 refreshed in February 2024, putting it among the 80 of 444 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: Poway holds 15 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 9 of them optometry and 6 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 92064. No other practice in the city took its NPI earlier than this one, which makes it the longest-registered address here. The closest is Lillian C. Lee, M.D., Inc. in Poway, 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
420 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, 14 of them elsewhere in Poway. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lillian C. Lee, M.D., Inc. | Poway | Ophthalmology | 0.2 mi | (858) 451-8600 |
| North County Eye Physicians, Inc | Poway | Ophthalmology | 0.2 mi | (858) 451-8600 |
| North County Eye Center | Poway | Ophthalmology | 0.2 mi | (858) 451-8600 |
| North County Ophthalmology Medical Group, Inc. | Poway | Optometry | 0.2 mi | (858) 485-5600 |
| North County Ophthalmology Medical Group | Poway | Ophthalmology | 0.2 mi | (858) 485-5600 |
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 Retina Consultants San Diego Inc. 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.