California Retina Consultants, A Professional Medical Corporation, Santa Barbara: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1386737617
- Legal business name
- California Retina Consultants
- Registered trading name
- California Retina Consultants, A Professional Medical Corporation
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology, Retina Specialist (207WX0107X)
- Non eye care codes on the record
- 1 additional taxonomy code outside optometry and ophthalmology
- Practice location
- 525 E Micheltorena St, Suite A
Santa Barbara, CA 93103-2254 - Phone on the record
- (805) 963-1648
- NPI issued
- September 30, 2006
- Record last updated by the practice
- July 21, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA
- County
- Santa Barbara County
- Locations under this name
- 10 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name California Retina Consultants and registered California Retina Consultants, A Professional Medical Corporation as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. 10 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 last refreshed in July 2022. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 10 of 48 records were updated in 2024 or later and 25 predate 2020.
For local context: Santa Barbara holds 16 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 7 of them optometry and 9 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 93103. 1 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is William H. Coulter, M.D. in Santa Barbara, 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.
Nearest registered practices
22 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Santa Maria-Santa Barbara metro itself there are 48, 15 of them elsewhere in Santa Barbara. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William H. Coulter, M.D. | Santa Barbara | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (805) 564-8917 |
| Stuart R Winthrop MD Inc | Santa Barbara | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (805) 963-4272 |
| Associated Eye Specialists Medical Group Inc | Santa Barbara | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (805) 963-4272 |
| Optometry Care Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara | Optometry | 0.5 mi | (805) 569-2318 |
| Joanne Gronquist, O.D. | Santa Barbara | Optometry | 0.6 mi | (805) 569-1504 |
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 ophthalmology practice like this
The NPI registry holds no prices, so nothing here is a quote from California Retina Consultants, A Professional Medical Corporation. Based on this site's own price research, an ophthalmology practice typically charges $150 to $300 or more for an exam without insurance, against a national average of about $136 and roughly $25 once a vision plan pays its share.
Ophthalmology visits are usually medical rather than routine, which changes who pays: medical insurance and Medicare Part B cover a medically necessary exam, while a routine refraction for glasses is normally not covered. Ask whether the visit will be billed as medical or routine before you book, and compare with the 28 optometry practices on the Santa Maria-Santa Barbara page if you only need a prescription.