Lakewood Eye Center, Lakewood: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1699077446
- Legal business name
- Wellensiek Eye Care, LLC
- Registered trading name
- Lakewood Eye Center
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 1861 Wadsworth Blvd
Lakewood, CO 80214-5225 - Phone on the record
- (303) 237-5401
- NPI issued
- November 30, 2010
- Record last updated by the practice
- January 8, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO
- County
- Jefferson County
- Duplicate registrations at this address
- 1 additional NPI for the same name and address, folded into this record
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Wellensiek Eye Care, LLC and registered Lakewood Eye 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 January 2022. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 131 of 491 records were updated in 2024 or later and 182 predate 2020.
For local context: Lakewood holds 39 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 35 of them optometry and 4 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 80214. 14 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Lakewood Eye Clinic in Lakewood, 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 Colorado boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Also registered at this address
1 other organization holds an NPI at the same street address. Shared suites and multi-specialty buildings are common, and it is worth knowing which entity you are actually booking with.
| Organization | Registered as | Record updated |
|---|---|---|
| Lakewood Eye Clinic | Ophthalmology | October 2012 |
Nearest registered practices
537 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 491, 38 of them elsewhere in Lakewood. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakewood Eye Clinic | Lakewood | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (303) 237-5401 |
| All About Kids Vision Clinic | Lakewood | Optometry | 0.1 mi | (303) 431-1221 |
| Loma Eye Care | Lakewood | Optometry | 0.4 mi | (720) 882-3414 |
| Columbine Eyecare Center | Lakewood | Optometry | 0.6 mi | (303) 238-9900 |
| Adventure Dental Vision and Orthodontics | Lakewood | Optometry | 0.7 mi | (720) 279-2266 |
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 Lakewood Eye Center, and independent optometry practices do not publish fee schedules. Customers report paying $120 to $200 at this kind of practice without insurance, which is a reported band rather than a published price. The nearest published figure is $95, the median starting fee across the 1,280 US retail optical stores that print one (30 September 2026), and Medicare pays $149.64 for a comprehensive new-patient exam (CPT 92004). Ask Lakewood Eye Center for its self-pay price.
Ask two things when you call: whether the quoted fee includes the refraction, and what a contact lens fitting adds if you wear lenses (the median published contact-lens fee is $129). A comprehensive exam is $80 to $120 at the middle half of stores that print a price. If price is the deciding factor, the 491 practices on the Denver-Aurora-Centennial page give you the full local field to call around.