Spotlight Optometry, San Diego: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1306573381
- Legal business name
- Dr. Pei Chi Chain, OD, Optometric Corporation
- Registered trading name
- Spotlight Optometry
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 7835 Highland Village Pl Ste D106
San Diego, CA 92129-5185 - Phone on the record
- (858) 250-0052
- NPI issued
- August 1, 2022
- Record last updated by the practice
- September 6, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 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 Dr. Pei Chi Chain, OD, Optometric Corporation and registered Spotlight 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 last refreshed in September 2023. 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: San Diego holds 172 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 124 of them optometry and 48 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 92129. 145 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Westview Optometry in San Diego, 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
431 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, 171 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westview Optometry | San Diego | Optometry | 0.3 mi | (858) 324-0089 |
| Torrey Highlands Optometry | San Diego | Optometry | 1.6 mi | (858) 997-5402 |
| Carmel Mountain Vision Care | San Diego | Optometry | 1.7 mi | (858) 484-1500 |
| Carmel Mountain Vision Care | San Diego | Optometry | 1.7 mi | (858) 484-1500 |
| Carmel Mountain Vision Care Optometry | San Diego | Optometry | 1.7 mi | (858) 484-1500 |
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 Spotlight Optometry. Based on this site's own price research, an independent optometry practice typically charges $120 to $200 for an exam without insurance, against a national average of about $136 and roughly $25 once a vision plan pays its share.
Ask two things when you call: whether the quoted fee includes the refraction, and what a contact lens fitting adds if you wear lenses, since that takes a visit to $150 to $370. A comprehensive exam is $100 to $250. If price is the deciding factor, the 444 practices on the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad page give you the full local field to call around.