North Florida Eyecare, Lake City: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1801916077
- Legal business name
- Julie L Owens OD PA
- Registered trading name
- North Florida Eyecare
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 763 SW Main Blvd
Lake City, FL 32025 - Phone on the record
- (386) 752-1722
- NPI issued
- March 30, 2007
- Record last updated by the practice
- November 22, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Lake City, FL
- County
- Columbia County
- Locations under this name
- 2 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Julie L Owens OD PA and registered North Florida Eyecare as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. 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 November 2022. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 1 of 7 records were updated in 2024 or later and 3 predate 2020.
For local context: Lake City holds 7 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 4 of them optometry and 3 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 32025. 2 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Lake City Eye Physicians, LLC in Lake City, 0.4 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 Florida boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
8 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Lake City metro itself there are 7, 6 of them elsewhere in Lake City. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake City Eye Physicians, LLC | Lake City | Optometry | 0.4 mi | (386) 754-6616 |
| Eye Doctors Optical Outlets, PA | Lake City | Optometry | 2.0 mi | (386) 515-8647 |
| Bedoya Eye Care P A | Lake City | Ophthalmology | 2.1 mi | (386) 755-7595 |
| Lake City Vision PA | Lake City | Optometry | 6.1 mi | (386) 755-2400 |
| DBA Family Focus Eye Care | Lake City | Ophthalmology | 7.0 mi | (386) 755-2785 |
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 North Florida Eyecare. 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 7 practices on the Lake City page give you the full local field to call around.