Athens Family Vision Clinic, Athens: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1841593175
- Legal business name
- Russell D Springer PC
- Registered trading name
- Athens Family Vision Clinic
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 270 Hawthorne Ave
Athens, GA 30606-2881 - Phone on the record
- (706) 543-3599
- NPI issued
- December 8, 2010
- Record last updated by the practice
- October 14, 2024
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Athens-Clarke County, GA
- County
- Clarke County
- Parent organization
- Russell D. Springer PC
- Organization subpart
- Yes, this location bills as a subpart of a larger organization
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Russell D Springer PC and registered Athens Family Vision Clinic as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. CMS records this location as a subpart of Russell D. Springer PC, meaning it bills under its own NPI but belongs to a larger organization. The entry was refreshed in October 2024, putting it among the 5 of 22 Athens-Clarke County records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Athens holds 16 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 11 of them optometry and 5 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 30606. 9 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Thomas Eye Center in Athens, 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 Georgia boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
38 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Athens-Clarke County metro itself there are 22, 15 of them elsewhere in Athens. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Eye Center | Athens | Optometry | 0.7 mi | (706) 549-7757 |
| Thomas Eye Center | Athens | Optometry | 0.7 mi | (706) 549-7757 |
| Athens Eye Consultants LLC | Athens | Ophthalmology | 0.7 mi | (706) 850-1771 |
| Georgia Eye | Athens | Ophthalmology | 1.0 mi | not listed |
| Thomas Edward Arey | Athens | Optometry | 1.2 mi | (706) 549-7047 |
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 Athens Family Vision Clinic, 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 Athens Family Vision Clinic 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 22 practices on the Athens-Clarke County page give you the full local field to call around.