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Steamboat Springs - CMS NPI registry, October 2026

Eye Doctors in Steamboat Springs, CO: 8 Registered Practices

8 eye care organizations on the Colorado side of the Steamboat Springs micropolitan statistical area area hold a current NPI in the October 2026 CMS file: 7 optometry practices (88 percent) and 1 ophthalmology practices. They spread across 2 cities, led by Steamboat Springs (6) and Craig (2). The metro covers 2 counties including Moffat County and Routt County. 1 records were refreshed by the practice in 2024 or later and 7 have not been updated since before 2020.

Booking here: 88 percent of Steamboat Springs records are optometry practices, which is the side of the market that does routine exams at $120 to $200 without insurance. The 1 ophthalmology practices are physician offices and price accordingly, at $150 to $300 or more. Eyecare Specialties Inc. run multiple offices in this metro, so one price check usually covers all of them.

Registered practices
8
0 with a profile page
Optometry
7
88% of this metro
Ophthalmology
1
0 register a subspecialty
Cities covered
2
2 counties
Address matched
63%
rest placed at a ZIP code centroid

What an eye exam costs around Steamboat Springs

No prices exist in the NPI registry, so treat the list below as a call sheet rather than a quote sheet. The nearest published national figure is $95, the median starting exam fee across the 1,280 US retail optical stores that print one on their own store pages (30 September 2026), and Medicare pays $149.64 for a comprehensive new-patient exam (CPT 92004).

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 $80 to $120 at the middle half of stores that print a price, and a contact lens fitting is priced separately, at a $129 median published fee.

Where the practices are

CityPracticesOptometryOphthalmology
Steamboat Springs651
Craig220

City is the free-text value the practice entered in the registry. Every city in this table sits inside the Steamboat Springs micropolitan statistical area area as defined by the Census 2023 delineation.

Every registered practice in Steamboat Springs

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
Eyecare Specialties Inc.CraigOptometry(970) 824-3488December 2014
Victory Vision Associates, PCCraigOptometry(970) 824-8307July 2013
Eyecare Specialties Inc.Steamboat SpringsOptometry(970) 879-2020August 2024
Helm Eye Center
Registered as Mark L. Helm M.D. P.C.
Steamboat SpringsOphthalmology(970) 879-3750June 2008
Mountain Eyeworks LLCSteamboat SpringsOptometry(970) 879-2595November 2016
Mountain Eyeworks P.C.
Registered as Lewis M. Cutter Jr., O.D. P.C.
Steamboat SpringsOptometry(970) 879-2595January 2012
Steamboat Vision Clinic
Registered as Dr Jason Garey P.C.
Steamboat SpringsOptometry(970) 879-4266February 2009
Steamboat Vision Clinic, P.C.Steamboat SpringsOptometry(970) 879-4266January 2008

Phone numbers are the practice location numbers on the NPI record. They are self-reported, CMS does not verify them, and 7 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 Colorado licensing boards.

Groups with more than one office here

Practice groupOffices in this metro
Eyecare Specialties Inc.2

Nearby metro areas

Edwards, CO (7)Rifle, CO (16)Breckenridge, CO (12)Laramie, WY (4)Boulder, CO (86)Fort Collins-Loveland, CO (88)All Colorado practices

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Source and provenance. CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), NPI data dissemination file, August 2026 (October 2026, published October 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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