Eyemd of Alameda, Alameda: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1063698223
- Legal business name
- Stephen E. Post, MD A Professional Corporation
- Registered trading name
- Eyemd of Alameda
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology (207W00000X)
- Practice location
- 2149 Central Ave
Alameda, CA 94501-2894 - Phone on the record
- (510) 769-0477
- NPI issued
- January 17, 2008
- Record last updated by the practice
- January 17, 2024
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA
- County
- Alameda County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Stephen E. Post, MD A Professional Corporation and registered Eyemd of Alameda 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 January 2024, putting it among the 95 of 545 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Alameda holds 13 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 8 of them optometry and 5 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 94501. 3 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is P L Gardner MD S D Cohen MD and D P Bui MD in Alameda, 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
521 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 545, 12 of them elsewhere in Alameda. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P L Gardner MD S D Cohen MD and D P Bui MD | Alameda | Ophthalmology | 0.2 mi | (510) 522-0377 |
| Harbor Bay Optometry DBA Alameda Eyes Optometry | Alameda | Optometry | 0.4 mi | (510) 769-2020 |
| Alameda Eye Center, PC | Alameda | Ophthalmology | 0.4 mi | (510) 519-8066 |
| Alameda Optometric Group | Alameda | Optometry | 0.4 mi | (510) 521-2015 |
| Michael E. Gorin, MD Professional Corporation | Alameda | Ophthalmology | 0.6 mi | (510) 521-6510 |
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 Eyemd of Alameda, 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 Eyemd of Alameda 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 388 optometry practices on the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont page if you only need a prescription.