Hawaii Eye Institute, Honolulu: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1447436548
- Legal business name
- Gregory W Schmidt MD LLC
- Registered trading name
- Hawaii Eye Institute
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology (207W00000X)
- Practice location
- 1380 Lusitana St Ste 604
Honolulu, HI 96813-2442 - Phone on the record
- (808) 523-2020
- NPI issued
- January 18, 2008
- Record last updated by the practice
- January 11, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Urban Honolulu, HI
- County
- Honolulu County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Gregory W Schmidt MD LLC and registered Hawaii Eye Institute 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 January 2022. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 40 of 186 records were updated in 2024 or later and 114 predate 2020.
For local context: Honolulu holds 114 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 72 of them optometry and 42 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 96813. 48 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Retina Center of Hawaii LLC in Honolulu, 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 Hawaii boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
183 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Urban Honolulu metro itself there are 186, 113 of them elsewhere in Honolulu. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retina Center of Hawaii LLC | Honolulu | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (808) 550-8440 |
| Shigemi Sugiki MD & Jon M Portis MD, Inc. | Honolulu | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (808) 528-5333 |
| Oculofacial Plastic Surgery of Hawaii Inc | Honolulu | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (808) 888-9981 |
| Honolulu Eye Clinic | Honolulu | Ophthalmology | 0.1 mi | (808) 526-0030 |
| Honolulu Eye Clinic | Honolulu | Pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus | 0.1 mi | (808) 526-0030 |
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 Hawaii Eye Institute. 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 128 optometry practices on the Urban Honolulu page if you only need a prescription.