Eye Center of North Florida, P.A., Chipley: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1194820571
- Legal business name
- Eye Center of North Florida, P.A.
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Other registered specialties
- Optometrist, Corneal and Contact Management; Optometrist, Low Vision Rehabilitation; Optometrist, Pediatrics; Ophthalmology
- Non eye care codes on the record
- 1 additional taxonomy code outside optometry and ophthalmology
- Practice location
- 1400 Main St
Chipley, FL 32428-6943 - Phone on the record
- (850) 638-7333
- NPI issued
- September 13, 2006
- Record last updated by the practice
- April 20, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL
- County
- Washington County
- Parent organization
- Eye Center of North Florida
- Organization subpart
- Yes, this location bills as a subpart of a larger organization
- Locations under this name
- 4 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
Beyond the primary code the record carries Optometrist, Corneal and Contact Management, Optometrist, Low Vision Rehabilitation and Optometrist, Pediatrics, which is the registry's own signal that the practice covers more than routine work. CMS records this location as a subpart of Eye Center of North Florida, meaning it bills under its own NPI but belongs to a larger organization. 4 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 April 2023. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 3 of 23 records were updated in 2024 or later and 10 predate 2020.
For local context: Chipley holds 3 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 3 of them optometry and 0 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 32428. No other practice in the city took its NPI earlier than this one, which makes it the longest-registered address here. The closest is Precision Eye Care Ltd in Chipley, 0.6 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 Panama City-Panama City Beach metro itself there are 23, 2 of them elsewhere in Chipley. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Precision Eye Care Ltd | Chipley | Corneal and contact lens management | 0.6 mi | (850) 638-3214 |
| Chequita Hilversum, PLLC | Chipley | Optometry | 0.6 mi | (850) 638-3214 |
| Clifford L. Wood O.D. P.A. | Bonifay | Optometry | 12.2 mi | (850) 547-3402 |
| North Florida Eye Institute PA | Marianna | Ophthalmology | 18.3 mi | (850) 526-3937 |
| Pelt Eye Clinic, P.A. | Marianna | Optometry | 18.4 mi | (850) 482-2336 |
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 Eye Center of North Florida, P.A., 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 Eye Center of North Florida, P.A. 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 23 practices on the Panama City-Panama City Beach page give you the full local field to call around.