Thomas Eye Center, 1077 Baxter St Ste 100, Athens: NPI Registry Record
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1871335240
- Legal business name
- Athens Eye Care LLC
- Registered trading name
- Thomas Eye Center
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 1077 Baxter St Ste 100
Athens, GA 30606-3767 - Phone on the record
- (706) 549-7757
- NPI issued
- June 7, 2024
- Record last updated by the practice
- August 1, 2024
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Athens-Clarke County, GA
- County
- Clarke County
- Locations under this name
- 2 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Athens Eye Care LLC and registered Thomas Eye Center as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. 2 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 refreshed in August 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. 15 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Thomas Eye Center in Athens, 0.0 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 | 0.0 mi | (706) 549-7757 |
| Thomas Edward Arey | Athens | Optometry | 0.6 mi | (706) 549-7047 |
| Athens Family Vision Clinic | Athens | Optometry | 0.7 mi | (706) 543-3599 |
| Five Points Eye Care Center | Athens | Optometry | 0.7 mi | (706) 543-2020 |
| Georgia Center for Sight | Athens | Ophthalmology | 0.7 mi | (706) 546-9290 |
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 Thomas Eye Center. 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 22 practices on the Athens-Clarke County page give you the full local field to call around.