Harborside Eye Specialists, Port Charlotte: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1962699538
- Legal business name
- Harborside Eye Specialists, P.A.
- Registered trading name
- Harborside Eye Specialists
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology (207W00000X)
- Practice location
- 3430 Tamiami Trl, Suite A
Port Charlotte, FL 33952-8127 - Phone on the record
- (941) 624-4500
- NPI issued
- September 27, 2007
- Record last updated by the practice
- September 8, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Punta Gorda, FL
- County
- Charlotte County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Harborside Eye Specialists, P.A. and registered Harborside Eye Specialists as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. The entry was last refreshed in September 2023. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 12 of 32 records were updated in 2024 or later and 14 predate 2020.
For local context: Port Charlotte holds 14 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 9 of them optometry and 5 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 33952. 5 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Florida Eye and Laser Institute LLC in Port Charlotte, 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
67 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Punta Gorda metro itself there are 32, 13 of them elsewhere in Port Charlotte. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida Eye and Laser Institute LLC | Port Charlotte | Ophthalmology | 0.4 mi | (941) 883-2020 |
| Family Eyecare Center | Port Charlotte | Optometry | 0.5 mi | (941) 629-1090 |
| Family Eyecare Center, LLC. | Port Charlotte | Ophthalmology | 0.5 mi | (941) 629-1090 |
| Denise Foran Billings, O.D., P.A. | Port Charlotte | Optometry | 2.3 mi | (941) 624-5772 |
| National Vision, Inc. | Port Charlotte | Optometry | 2.7 mi | (941) 440-1095 |
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 Harborside Eye Specialists. Based on this site's own price research, an ophthalmology practice typically charges $150 to $300 or more for an exam without insurance, against a national average of about $136 and roughly $25 once a vision plan pays its share.
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 21 optometry practices on the Punta Gorda page if you only need a prescription.