Nipomo Optometry, 150 S Mary Ave Ste 4, Nipomo: NPI Registry Record
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1346539095
- Legal business name
- Ben Palmer, O.D. A Professional Optometric Corporation
- Registered trading name
- Nipomo Optometry
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 150 S Mary Ave Ste 4
Nipomo, CA 93444-7821 - Phone on the record
- (805) 929-1982
- NPI issued
- April 4, 2011
- Record last updated by the practice
- December 21, 2024
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA
- County
- San Luis Obispo County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Ben Palmer, O.D. A Professional Optometric Corporation and registered Nipomo Optometry as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. The entry was refreshed in December 2024, putting it among the 12 of 51 San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Nipomo holds 2 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 2 of them optometry and 0 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 93444. 1 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Nipomo Optometry Inc in Nipomo, 1.1 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
45 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 Luis Obispo-Paso Robles metro itself there are 51, 1 of them elsewhere in Nipomo. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nipomo Optometry Inc | Nipomo | Optometry | 1.1 mi | (805) 929-1982 |
| Adam D Abroms MD Inc | Santa Maria | Ophthalmology | 6.6 mi | (805) 987-5300 |
| William R Reid OD Inc | Santa Maria | Optometry | 6.7 mi | (805) 922-1923 |
| Dennis D Shepard MD Inc | Santa Maria | Ophthalmology | 7.0 mi | (805) 614-7591 |
| Daniel P. Shepard | Santa Maria | Retina | 7.0 mi | (608) 614-7591 |
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 Nipomo Optometry. Based on this site's own price research, an independent optometry practice typically charges $120 to $200 for an exam without insurance, against a national average of about $136 and roughly $25 once a vision plan pays its share.
Ask two things when you call: whether the quoted fee includes the refraction, and what a contact lens fitting adds if you wear lenses, since that takes a visit to $150 to $370. A comprehensive exam is $100 to $250. If price is the deciding factor, the 51 practices on the San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles page give you the full local field to call around.