Halpern Eye Care, 885 - South Governors Ave., Dover: NPI Registry Record
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1245251313
- Legal business name
- Halpern Eye Associates, P. A.
- Registered trading name
- Halpern Eye Care
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 885 - South Governors Ave.
Dover, DE 19904-4158 - Phone on the record
- (302) 734-5861
- NPI issued
- July 22, 2006
- Record last updated by the practice
- July 21, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Dover, DE
- County
- Kent County
- Locations under this name
- 11 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Halpern Eye Associates, P. A. and registered Halpern Eye Care as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. 11 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 1 of 26 records were updated in 2024 or later and 14 predate 2020.
For local context: Dover holds 16 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 12 of them optometry and 4 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 19904. 3 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Halpern Eye Associates in Dover, 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 Delaware boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
34 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Dover metro itself there are 26, 15 of them elsewhere in Dover. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Halpern Eye Associates | Dover | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (302) 734-5861 |
| Halpern Eye Care | Dover | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (302) 734-5861 |
| Myeyedr. | Dover | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (302) 734-5861 |
| Delaware Eye Institute | Dover | Ophthalmology | 0.1 mi | (302) 672-1121 |
| Bryan K Sterling OD LLC | Dover | Optometry | 0.4 mi | (302) 734-3511 |
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 Halpern Eye Care. 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 26 practices on the Dover page give you the full local field to call around.