Eye Center of North Florida, P.A., Panama City Beach: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1730284118
- 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
- Practice location
- 10900 Hutchison Blvd
Panama City Beach, FL 32407-3712 - Phone on the record
- (850) 234-1829
- NPI issued
- September 13, 2006
- Record last updated by the practice
- April 20, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL
- County
- Bay 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: Panama City Beach holds 6 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 5 of them optometry and 1 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 32407. No other practice in the city took its NPI earlier than this one, which makes it the longest-registered address here. The closest is Retina Specialty Institute in Panama City Beach, 0.7 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
20 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, 5 of them elsewhere in Panama City Beach. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retina Specialty Institute | Panama City Beach | Ophthalmology | 0.7 mi | (850) 250-2637 |
| Dr Mona Patel OD LLC | Panama City Beach | Optometry | 1.5 mi | (850) 563-8800 |
| Emerald Coast Optometry Associates, PA | Panama City Beach | Optometry | 1.7 mi | (850) 654-3937 |
| Pearle Vision | Panama City Beach | Optometry | 1.7 mi | (850) 230-4433 |
| The Eye Gallery | Panama City Beach | Optometry | 4.3 mi | (850) 230-8350 |
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.. 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 23 practices on the Panama City-Panama City Beach page give you the full local field to call around.