David E. Palozej Eyecare Associates, LLC, Tolland: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1831611524
- Legal business name
- David E. Palozej Eyecare Associates, LLC
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 384 Merrow Rd Ste A
Tolland, CT 06084-3972 - Phone on the record
- (860) 870-4632
- NPI issued
- July 13, 2017
- Record last updated by the practice
- July 21, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT
- Parent organization
- David E. Palozej Eyecare Associates, LLC
- Organization subpart
- Yes, this location bills as a subpart of a larger organization
- Locations under this name
- 2 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
CMS records this location as a subpart of David E. Palozej Eyecare Associates, LLC, meaning it bills under its own NPI but belongs to a larger organization. 2 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 28 of 185 records were updated in 2024 or later and 97 predate 2020.
For local context: Tolland holds 3 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 3 of them optometry and 0 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 06084. 2 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Tolland Eye Care LLC in Tolland, 3.5 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 Connecticut boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
199 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford metro itself there are 185, 2 of them elsewhere in Tolland. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tolland Eye Care LLC | Tolland | Optometry | 3.5 mi | (860) 306-7213 |
| Swift Optometry Care PC | Tolland | Optometry | 4.1 mi | (212) 734-6621 |
| Kelly Family Eyecare, LLC | Vernon | Optometry | 7.5 mi | (860) 870-5822 |
| Robert R Palozej OD, LLC | Ellington | Optometry | 7.7 mi | (860) 875-7336 |
| David E. Palozej Eyecare Associates, LLC | Stafford Springs | Optometry | 7.8 mi | (860) 684-2191 |
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 David E. Palozej Eyecare Associates, LLC, 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 David E. Palozej Eyecare Associates, LLC 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 185 practices on the Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford page give you the full local field to call around.