The Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Palo Alto: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1447804844
- Legal business name
- Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired
- Registered trading name
- The Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist, Low Vision Rehabilitation (152WL0500X)
- Practice location
- 2500 El Camino Real Ste 100
Palo Alto, CA 94306-1723 - Phone on the record
- (408) 295-4016
- NPI issued
- July 24, 2019
- Record last updated by the practice
- February 16, 2024
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
- County
- Santa Clara County
- Parent organization
- Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired
- Organization subpart
- Yes, this location bills as a subpart of a larger organization
- Locations under this name
- 2 registered nationally
- Duplicate registrations at this address
- 1 additional NPI for the same name and address, folded into this record
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired and registered The Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. CMS records this location as a subpart of Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired, meaning it bills under its own NPI but belongs to a larger organization. 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 February 2024, 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: Palo Alto holds 20 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 18 of them optometry and 2 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 94306. 16 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is California Avenue Optometry & Contact Lens Clinic in Palo Alto, 0.1 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
444 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, 19 of them elsewhere in Palo Alto. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| California Avenue Optometry & Contact Lens Clinic | Palo Alto | Optometry | 0.1 mi | (650) 617-2020 |
| Cambridge Optometry | Palo Alto | Optometry | 0.2 mi | (650) 323-6772 |
| Scotthyver Visioncare | Palo Alto | Optometry | 0.3 mi | (408) 486-0898 |
| Palo Alto Vision Optometry Inc | Palo Alto | Optometry | 0.3 mi | (650) 322-6656 |
| Palo Alto Vision Optometry | Palo Alto | Optometry | 0.3 mi | (650) 322-6656 |
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 The Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired, 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 The Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired 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.