San Diego Retina Associates, San Diego: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1124089586
- Legal business name
- Vincent Q. Nguyen, M.D., Inc.
- Registered trading name
- San Diego Retina Associates
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology, Retina Specialist (207WX0107X)
- Practice location
- 7695 Cardinal CT Ste 100
San Diego, CA 92123-3357 - Phone on the record
- (858) 609-7100
- NPI issued
- March 28, 2006
- Record last updated by the practice
- November 15, 2023
- 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 Vincent Q. Nguyen, M.D., Inc. and registered San Diego Retina Associates as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. The entry was last refreshed in November 2023. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 83 of 446 records were updated in 2024 or later and 251 predate 2020.
For local context: San Diego holds 174 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 125 of them optometry and 49 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 92123. 4 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Fane L. Robinson, M.D. and Mark D. Smith, M.D., A Medical Corporation in San Diego, 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.
| Organization | Registered as | Record updated |
|---|---|---|
| Fane L. Robinson, M.D. and Mark D. Smith, M.D., A Medical Corporation | Retina | June 2021 |
Nearest registered practices
398 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, 173 of them elsewhere in San Diego. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fane L. Robinson, M.D. and Mark D. Smith, M.D., A Medical Corporation | San Diego | Retina | 0.0 mi | (858) 609-7100 |
| Richard Leung M D Inc A Professional Medical Corporation | San Diego | Ophthalmology | 0.5 mi | (858) 278-9900 |
| Thomas S Tooma M D A Professional Corporation | San Diego | Optometry | 0.5 mi | (858) 278-9900 |
| Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group, Inc | San Diego | Optometry | 0.5 mi | (858) 499-2600 |
| Children's Specialists of San Diego - Div of Opth | San Diego | Ophthalmology | 0.6 mi | (858) 309-7701 |
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 San Diego Retina Associates, and ophthalmology practices do not publish fee schedules. Customers report paying $150 to $300 or more 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 San Diego Retina Associates for its self-pay price.
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 308 optometry practices on the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad page if you only need a prescription.