Almaden Eyes, San Jose: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1972377927
- Legal business name
- Almaden Eyes Optometry
- Registered trading name
- Almaden Eyes
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 6467 Almaden Expy Ste 20
San Jose, CA 95120-2928 - Phone on the record
- (408) 997-6800
- NPI issued
- November 9, 2023
- Record last updated by the practice
- November 9, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
- County
- Santa Clara County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Almaden Eyes Optometry and registered Almaden Eyes 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 November 2023. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 46 of 260 records were updated in 2024 or later and 169 predate 2020.
For local context: San Jose holds 108 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 85 of them optometry and 23 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 95120. 98 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Pei-Chen Hsieh, O.D., Inc. in San Jose, 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
325 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 Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metro itself there are 260, 107 of them elsewhere in San Jose. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pei-Chen Hsieh, O.D., Inc. | San Jose | Optometry | 0.2 mi | (408) 997-2020 |
| Eye Club Inc | San Jose | Optometry | 2.0 mi | (408) 226-8666 |
| Eye Club Optometry | San Jose | Optometry | 2.0 mi | (408) 226-8666 |
| Image Eyecare Optometry | San Jose | Optometry | 2.0 mi | (408) 281-3926 |
| Dr Bobby Darrell Smith II OD Professional Optometric Corporation | San Jose | Optometry | 2.0 mi | (408) 284-0117 |
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 Almaden Eyes, and independent optometry practices do not publish fee schedules. Customers report paying $120 to $200 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 Almaden Eyes for its self-pay price.
Ask two things when you call: whether the quoted fee includes the refraction, and what a contact lens fitting adds if you wear lenses (the median published contact-lens fee is $129). A comprehensive exam is $80 to $120 at the middle half of stores that print a price. If price is the deciding factor, the 260 practices on the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara page give you the full local field to call around.