Eye Doctors in Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA: 26 Registered Practices
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.
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
| City | Practices | Optometry | Ophthalmology |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz | 12 | 11 | 1 |
| Freedom | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Watsonville | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Capitola | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Aptos | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Ben Lomond | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Scotts Valley | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Phone on record | Record updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aptos Optometric Center Registered as Scott P Daly Santa Cruz Optometric | Aptos | Optometry | (831) 685-1050 | August 2017 |
| Hunt & Shaw, A Professional Optometric Corporation | Ben Lomond | Optometry | (831) 336-2279 | December 2014 |
| Michael G Sonnleitner | Capitola | Optometry | (831) 476-7744 | September 2012 |
| Sterling Visioncare Registered as Visioncare of California | Capitola | Optometry | (831) 477-4900 | March 2011 |
| Coastal Eye Associates, A Medical Corporation | Freedom | Ophthalmology | (831) 728-2020 | July 2014 |
| Conrad Hamako, M.D. Inc. | Freedom | Ophthalmology | (831) 728-2020 | February 2008 |
| Douglas A Liddicoat Inc | Freedom | Ophthalmology | (831) 728-2020 | August 2020 |
| John V Crowder Jr MD Inc | Freedom | Ophthalmology | (831) 728-2020 | July 2008 |
| John V. Crowder Jr M.D. Inc. | Freedom | Ophthalmology | (831) 728-2020 | August 2009 |
| Eyepacs Inc. | Santa Cruz | Optometry | (800) 228-6144 | April 2021 |
| Eyepacs, LLC | Santa Cruz | Optometry | (800) 228-6144 | May 2019 |
| Eyeq Optometry Registered as Krok and Shen Optometrists Inc | Santa Cruz | Optometry | (831) 466-3937 | April 2017 |
| John A van Every OD | Santa Cruz | Optometry | (831) 426-7172 | January 2010 |
| Midtown Optometry Registered as Craig Fellers OD Inc | Santa Cruz | Occupational vision | (831) 426-7172 | January 2015 |
| North Coast Vision | Santa Cruz | Optometry | (831) 462-5945 | November 2007 |
| Plager Vision and Optometric Center Registered as Ted A Bailey O D Optometric Corporation | Santa Cruz | Optometry | (831) 476-8033 | May 2010 |
| Plaza Lane Optometry | Santa Cruz | Optometry | (831) 429-2020 | September 2023 |
| Plaza Lane Optometry | Santa Cruz | Optometry | (831) 429-2020 | December 2022 |
| Robert C. Jones M.D.medical Corporation | Santa Cruz | Ophthalmology | (831) 426-2550 | September 2010 |
| Santa Cruz Optometric Center Registered as Scott P Daly Santa Cruz Optometric | Santa Cruz | Optometry | (831) 426-1050 | August 2017 |
| Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired | Santa Cruz | Low vision rehabilitation | (831) 458-9766 | December 2018 |
| Anthony P. Giannotti OD Professional Optometric Corp | Scotts Valley | Optometry | (831) 438-4482 | June 2012 |
| Dr Sylvia K Lee, OD, PHD | Watsonville | Optometry | (831) 674-1063 | August 2020 |
| Family Optometry Registered as Stuart M. Sakuma, OD | Watsonville | Optometry | (831) 724-2258 | August 2020 |
| Green Valley Optometry | Watsonville | Optometry | (831) 724-1063 | October 2018 |
| Krupa Tailor OD A Professional Corporation | Watsonville | Optometry | (831) 724-3823 | January 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 group | Offices in this metro |
|---|---|
| Aptos Optometric Center | 2 |
| Eyepacs Inc. | 2 |
| Plaza Lane Optometry | 2 |