El Cerrito Optometry, El Cerrito: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1699351148
- Legal business name
- Third Optometric Care of California PC
- Registered trading name
- El Cerrito Optometry
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 180 El Cerrito Plz
El Cerrito, CA 94530-4002 - Phone on the record
- (510) 526-2242
- NPI issued
- March 23, 2021
- Record last updated by the practice
- December 20, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA
- County
- Contra Costa County
- Locations under this name
- 13 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Third Optometric Care of California PC and registered El Cerrito Optometry as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. 13 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 last refreshed in December 2023. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 92 of 543 records were updated in 2024 or later and 332 predate 2020.
For local context: El Cerrito holds 4 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 4 of them optometry and 0 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 94530. 2 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Miller Mia L Gen Ptr in El Cerrito, 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
425 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 Francisco-Oakland-Fremont metro itself there are 543, 3 of them elsewhere in El Cerrito. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miller Mia L Gen Ptr | El Cerrito | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (510) 526-2242 |
| Solano Eyecare Optometric Professionals | Albany | Optometry | 0.7 mi | (510) 526-3937 |
| Albany Berkeley Optometry | Albany | Optometry | 0.8 mi | (510) 526-0194 |
| Kensington Optometry Inc | Kensington | Optometry | 1.2 mi | (510) 527-1714 |
| Lunettes du Monde Optometry | Berkeley | Optometry | 2.1 mi | (510) 559-8181 |
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 El Cerrito 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 543 practices on the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont page give you the full local field to call around.