Dr. Gary Gold & Associates, Sunnyvale: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1417848029
- Legal business name
- Through the Hayes Optometry Inc
- Registered trading name
- Dr. Gary Gold & Associates
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 130 S Sunnyvale Ave
Sunnyvale, CA 94086-6249 - Phone on the record
- (408) 736-3802
- NPI issued
- July 11, 2025
- Record last updated by the practice
- July 11, 2025
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
- County
- Santa Clara County
- Locations under this name
- 7 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Through the Hayes Optometry Inc and registered Dr. Gary Gold & Associates as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. 7 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 July 2025, putting it among the 46 of 260 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Sunnyvale holds 15 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 11 of them optometry and 4 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 94086. 12 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Dr. Gary Gold & Associates Optometry in Sunnyvale, 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.
Also registered at this address
1 other organization holds an NPI at the same street address. Shared suites and multi-specialty buildings are common, and it is worth knowing which entity you are actually booking with.
| Organization | Registered as | Record updated |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Gary Gold & Associates Optometry | Optometry | April 2024 |
Nearest registered practices
409 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, 14 of them elsewhere in Sunnyvale. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Gary Gold & Associates Optometry | Sunnyvale | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (408) 736-3802 |
| Sunnyvale Optometric Center | Sunnyvale | Optometry | 0.4 mi | (408) 739-3937 |
| Dr. Holbert, Optometrist | Sunnyvale | Optometry | 0.7 mi | (408) 245-5725 |
| Sunnyvale Optometry | Sunnyvale | Optometry | 0.8 mi | (408) 245-6212 |
| Camino Medical Group | Sunnyvale | Ophthalmology | 0.8 mi | (408) 739-6000 |
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 Dr. Gary Gold & Associates, 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 Dr. Gary Gold & Associates 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.