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Santa Cruz-Watsonville - CMS NPI registry, August 2026

Eye Doctors in Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA: 26 Registered Practices

26 eye care organizations on the California side of the Santa Cruz-Watsonville metropolitan statistical area area hold a current NPI in the August 2026 CMS file: 20 optometry practices (77 percent) and 6 ophthalmology practices. They spread across 7 cities, led by Santa Cruz (12), Freedom (5), Watsonville (4) and Capitola (2). The metro covers Santa Cruz County. 0 records were refreshed by the practice in 2024 or later and 19 have not been updated since before 2020.

Booking here: 77 percent of Santa Cruz-Watsonville records are optometry practices, which is the side of the market that does routine exams at $120 to $200 without insurance. The 6 ophthalmology practices are physician offices and price accordingly, at $150 to $300 or more. Aptos Optometric Center and Eyepacs Inc. run multiple offices in this metro, so one price check usually covers all of them.

Registered practices
26
1 with a profile page
Optometry
20
77% of this metro
Ophthalmology
6
2 register a subspecialty
Cities covered
7
1 county
Address matched
100%
every record matched to a street address

What an eye exam costs around Santa Cruz-Watsonville

No prices exist in the NPI registry, so treat the list below as a call sheet rather than a quote sheet. Nationally this site puts an eye exam at about $136 without insurance and around $25 with a vision plan.

No national retail optical brand is registered under its own name in this metro, so expect the independent optometry band of $120 to $200 rather than the $50 to $110 retail band. A comprehensive exam is $100 to $250, and adding a contact lens fitting takes the visit to $150 to $370.

Where the practices are

CityPracticesOptometryOphthalmology
Santa Cruz12111
Freedom505
Watsonville440
Capitola220
Aptos110
Ben Lomond110
Scotts Valley110

City is the free-text value the practice entered in the registry. Every city in this table sits inside the Santa Cruz-Watsonville metropolitan statistical area area as defined by the Census 2023 delineation.

Every registered practice in Santa Cruz-Watsonville

Ordered by city, then by name. Names in blue have a profile page with the full registry record and the nearest alternatives.

PracticeCityRegistered asPhone on recordRecord updated
Aptos Optometric Center
Registered as Scott P Daly Santa Cruz Optometric
AptosOptometry(831) 685-1050August 2017
Hunt & Shaw, A Professional Optometric CorporationBen LomondOptometry(831) 336-2279December 2014
Michael G SonnleitnerCapitolaOptometry(831) 476-7744September 2012
Sterling Visioncare
Registered as Visioncare of California
CapitolaOptometry(831) 477-4900March 2011
Coastal Eye Associates, A Medical CorporationFreedomOphthalmology(831) 728-2020July 2014
Conrad Hamako, M.D. Inc.FreedomOphthalmology(831) 728-2020February 2008
Douglas A Liddicoat IncFreedomOphthalmology(831) 728-2020August 2020
John V Crowder Jr MD IncFreedomOphthalmology(831) 728-2020July 2008
John V. Crowder Jr M.D. Inc.FreedomOphthalmology(831) 728-2020August 2009
Eyepacs Inc.Santa CruzOptometry(800) 228-6144April 2021
Eyepacs, LLCSanta CruzOptometry(800) 228-6144May 2019
Eyeq Optometry
Registered as Krok and Shen Optometrists Inc
Santa CruzOptometry(831) 466-3937April 2017
John A van Every ODSanta CruzOptometry(831) 426-7172January 2010
Midtown Optometry
Registered as Craig Fellers OD Inc
Santa CruzOccupational vision(831) 426-7172January 2015
North Coast VisionSanta CruzOptometry(831) 462-5945November 2007
Plager Vision and Optometric Center
Registered as Ted A Bailey O D Optometric Corporation
Santa CruzOptometry(831) 476-8033May 2010
Plaza Lane OptometrySanta CruzOptometry(831) 429-2020September 2023
Plaza Lane OptometrySanta CruzOptometry(831) 429-2020December 2022
Robert C. Jones M.D.medical CorporationSanta CruzOphthalmology(831) 426-2550September 2010
Santa Cruz Optometric Center
Registered as Scott P Daly Santa Cruz Optometric
Santa CruzOptometry(831) 426-1050August 2017
Vista Center for the Blind and Visually ImpairedSanta CruzLow vision rehabilitation(831) 458-9766December 2018
Anthony P. Giannotti OD Professional Optometric CorpScotts ValleyOptometry(831) 438-4482June 2012
Dr Sylvia K Lee, OD, PHDWatsonvilleOptometry(831) 674-1063August 2020
Family Optometry
Registered as Stuart M. Sakuma, OD
WatsonvilleOptometry(831) 724-2258August 2020
Green Valley OptometryWatsonvilleOptometry(831) 724-1063October 2018
Krupa Tailor OD A Professional CorporationWatsonvilleOptometry(831) 724-3823January 2021

Phone numbers are the practice location numbers on the NPI record. They are self-reported, CMS does not verify them, and 19 of these records have not been updated since before 2020. An NPI does not mean the practice is licensed: that is a matter for the California licensing boards.

Groups with more than one office here

Practice groupOffices in this metro
Aptos Optometric Center2
Eyepacs Inc.2
Plaza Lane Optometry2

Nearby metro areas

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Source and provenance. CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), NPI data dissemination file, August 2026 (August 2026, published August 2026 file). CMS NPI downloadable files. Licence: US federal public data, FOIA-disclosable, no charge; CMS deactivated-NPI display guidance honoured. NPI registry records from the CMS NPPES monthly file. An NPI is a billing identifier, not a licence: CMS does not verify that the holder is licensed or credentialed. Registry contact details are self-reported and are often years out of date. This directory lists organizations only. Individual practitioner records are never published here.

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Updated 2026-07-06