Caruana Eye Care, Oakland Park: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1215751730
- Legal business name
- Albert Caruana Jr MD PA
- Registered trading name
- Caruana Eye Care
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology (207W00000X)
- Practice location
- 1164 E Oakland Park Blvd Ste 300
Oakland Park, FL 33334-2709 - Phone on the record
- (954) 601-9515
- NPI issued
- November 12, 2024
- Record last updated by the practice
- June 12, 2025
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- County
- Broward County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Albert Caruana Jr MD PA and registered Caruana Eye Care as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. The entry was refreshed in June 2025, putting it among the 244 of 1,229 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Oakland Park holds 7 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 5 of them optometry and 2 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 33334. 6 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Robert M Easton Jr OD PA in Oakland Park, 0.3 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
739 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach metro itself there are 1,229, 6 of them elsewhere in Oakland Park. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert M Easton Jr OD PA | Oakland Park | Optometry | 0.3 mi | (954) 564-2025 |
| Jensen Eyecare, Inc | Oakland Park | Optometry | 0.3 mi | (954) 610-5927 |
| South Florida Vision Services, Inc. | Oakland Park | Optometry | 0.5 mi | (954) 566-1404 |
| Nova Southeastern University, Inc. | Wilton Manors | Optometry | 0.6 mi | (954) 262-1408 |
| Onsite Optometry LLC | Wilton Manors | Optometry | 0.6 mi | (954) 663-0287 |
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 ophthalmology practice like this
The NPI registry holds no prices, so nothing here is a quote from Caruana Eye Care, and ophthalmology practices do not publish fee schedules. Customers report paying $150 to $300 or more 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 Caruana Eye Care for its self-pay price.
Ophthalmology visits are usually medical rather than routine, which changes who pays: medical insurance and Medicare Part B cover a medically necessary exam, while a routine refraction for glasses is normally not covered. Ask whether the visit will be billed as medical or routine before you book, and compare with the 907 optometry practices on the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach page if you only need a prescription.