Ucsf Ophthalmology Group, 400 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco: NPI Registry Record
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1053497164
- Legal business name
- University of California San Francisco Medical Center
- Registered trading name
- Ucsf Ophthalmology Group
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology (207W00000X)
- Practice location
- 400 Parnassus Ave, Mcb 300
San Francisco, CA 94143-2202 - Phone on the record
- (415) 353-2800
- NPI issued
- October 31, 2006
- Record last updated by the practice
- April 15, 2025
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA
- County
- San Francisco County
- Locations under this name
- 2 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name University of California San Francisco Medical Center and registered Ucsf Ophthalmology Group as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. 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 April 2025, putting it among the 92 of 543 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: San Francisco holds 102 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 65 of them optometry and 37 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 94143. 17 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Ucsf Ophthalmology Group in San Francisco, 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
370 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, 101 of them elsewhere in San Francisco. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ucsf Ophthalmology Group | San Francisco | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (415) 353-2800 |
| Ucsf Optometry Clinic | San Francisco | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (415) 353-2800 |
| Ucsf School of Medicine | San Francisco | Ophthalmology | 0.3 mi | (415) 502-5411 |
| Ucsf Proctor Medical Group | San Francisco | Ophthalmology | 0.3 mi | (415) 476-1442 |
| Pacific Rims Optometry | San Francisco | Optometry | 0.4 mi | (415) 661-8253 |
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 Ucsf Ophthalmology Group. 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 386 optometry practices on the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont page if you only need a prescription.