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Fort Oglethorpe, GA - NPI registry record

Crowder Eye Center, Fort Oglethorpe: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context

Crowder Eye Center holds NPI 1689409898, registered with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as an optometry organization under taxonomy code 152W00000X (Optometrist). The practice location on the record is 1895 Battlefield Pkwy, Fort Oglethorpe, GA 30742, inside the Chattanooga metropolitan statistical area area. The NPI was issued in September 2024, 2 years ago, and the practice last updated its own entry in September 2024.

What the registry record says

NPI number
1689409898
Legal business name
Crowder & Adams Optometric Corp
Registered trading name
Crowder Eye Center
Primary registered specialty
Optometrist (152W00000X)
Practice location
1895 Battlefield Pkwy
Fort Oglethorpe, GA 30742-4021
Phone on the record
(706) 861-7166
NPI issued
September 6, 2024
Record last updated by the practice
September 6, 2024
Registry status
NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
County
Catoosa County
Location precision
Street address matched by the US Census geocoder

Reading this record

The practice bills under the legal name Crowder & Adams Optometric Corp and registered Crowder Eye Center as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. The entry was refreshed in September 2024, putting it among the 3 of 9 Chattanooga records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.

For local context: Fort Oglethorpe holds 4 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 4 of them optometry and 0 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 30742. 3 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Denise Q Shepard in Fort Oglethorpe, 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.

Also registered at this address

2 other organizations hold an NPI at the same street address. Shared suites and multi-specialty buildings are common, and it is worth knowing which entity you are actually booking with.

OrganizationRegistered asRecord updated
Denise Q ShepardOptometrySeptember 2018
Lookout Eye Care, IncOptometryOctober 2020

Nearest registered practices

76 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Chattanooga metro itself there are 9, 3 of them elsewhere in Fort Oglethorpe. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.

PracticeCityRegistered asDistancePhone on record
Denise Q ShepardFort OglethorpeOptometry0.0 mi(706) 861-7166
Lookout Eye Care, IncFort OglethorpeOptometry0.0 mi(706) 861-7166
A&A Optical LLCFort OglethorpeOptometry0.0 mi(706) 866-2111
Edwin T Hulse Md,pcFt OglethorpeOphthalmology0.7 mi(706) 861-1127
Spring Creek Eye CenterChattanoogaOptometry3.4 mi(423) 855-8288

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 Crowder Eye Center, 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 Crowder Eye Center 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 9 practices on the Chattanooga page give you the full local field to call around.

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Source and provenance. CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), NPI data dissemination file, August 2026 (October 2026, published October 2026 file). CMS NPI downloadable files. Licence: US federal public data, FOIA-disclosable, no charge; CMS deactivated-NPI display guidance honoured. NPI registry records from the CMS NPPES monthly file. An NPI is a billing identifier, not a licence: CMS does not verify that the holder is licensed or credentialed. Registry contact details are self-reported and are often years out of date. This directory lists organizations only. Individual practitioner records are never published here.

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