Walnut Creek Eye Medical Group, Inc, Walnut Creek: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1659067155
- Legal business name
- Walnut Creek Eye Medical Group, Inc
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology (207W00000X)
- Other registered specialties
- Optometrist
- Practice location
- 1855 San Miguel Dr Ste 28
Walnut Creek, CA 94596-5298 - Phone on the record
- (925) 935-8820
- NPI issued
- April 17, 2023
- Record last updated by the practice
- September 8, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA
- County
- Contra Costa County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
Beyond the primary code the record carries Optometrist, which is the registry's own signal that the practice covers more than routine work. The entry was last refreshed in September 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: Walnut Creek holds 29 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 12 of them optometry and 17 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 94596. 25 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Walnut Creek Optometry Group in Walnut Creek, 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
415 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, 28 of them elsewhere in Walnut Creek. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walnut Creek Optometry Group | Walnut Creek | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (925) 934-4313 |
| Richard L Rabin MD Inc | Walnut Creek | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (925) 930-8100 |
| Nguyen Tran, OD | Walnut Creek | Vision therapy | 0.0 mi | (510) 693-8053 |
| Steven A Harrison MD A Professional Corporation | Walnut Creek | Ophthalmology | 0.1 mi | (925) 947-0505 |
| Broadway Eyeworks | Walnut Creek | Optometry | 0.4 mi | (925) 930-7484 |
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 Walnut Creek Eye Medical Group, Inc. 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.