Insight Eyecare Center, Lakewood: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1043754419
- Legal business name
- Alex Zemke, OD, PLLC
- Registered trading name
- Insight Eyecare Center
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 2290 Kipling Street, Unit 1
Lakewood, CO 80215-1578 - Phone on the record
- (303) 238-9900
- NPI issued
- December 5, 2016
- Record last updated by the practice
- November 23, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO
- County
- Jefferson County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Alex Zemke, OD, PLLC and registered Insight Eyecare Center as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. The entry was last refreshed in November 2022. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 126 of 488 records were updated in 2024 or later and 183 predate 2020.
For local context: Lakewood holds 38 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 34 of them optometry and 4 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 80215. 22 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Black Diamond Eye Care in Lakewood, 1.2 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 Colorado boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
529 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Denver-Aurora-Centennial metro itself there are 488, 37 of them elsewhere in Lakewood. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Diamond Eye Care | Lakewood | Optometry | 1.2 mi | (303) 238-4357 |
| Alpine Vision | Lakewood | Optometry | 1.2 mi | (303) 238-4357 |
| All About Kids Vision Clinic | Lakewood | Optometry | 1.5 mi | (303) 431-1221 |
| Lakewood Eye Center | Lakewood | Optometry | 1.5 mi | (303) 237-5401 |
| Lakewood Eye Clinic | Lakewood | Ophthalmology | 1.5 mi | (303) 237-5401 |
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 Insight Eyecare Center. 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 488 practices on the Denver-Aurora-Centennial page give you the full local field to call around.