Priest River Eye Care, Priest River: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1104316785
- Legal business name
- Pend Oreille Vision Care
- Registered trading name
- Priest River Eye Care
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Non eye care codes on the record
- 1 additional taxonomy code outside optometry and ophthalmology
- Practice location
- 6132 Highway 2
Priest River, ID 83856 - Phone on the record
- (208) 448-0144
- NPI issued
- May 18, 2018
- Record last updated by the practice
- March 9, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Sandpoint, ID
- County
- Bonner County
- Parent organization
- Pend Oreille Vision Care
- 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 Pend Oreille Vision Care and registered Priest River Eye Care 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 Pend Oreille Vision Care, meaning it bills under its own NPI but belongs to a larger organization. The entry was last refreshed in March 2023. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 1 of 9 records were updated in 2024 or later and 6 predate 2020.
For local context: Priest River holds 1 registered eye care practice in this snapshot, 1 of them optometry and 0 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 83856. No other practice in the city took its NPI earlier than this one, which makes it the longest-registered address here. The closest is Colville Vision Source in Newport, 6.2 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 Idaho boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
9 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Sandpoint metro itself there are 9. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colville Vision Source | Newport | Optometry | 6.2 mi | (509) 447-2945 |
| Sandpoint Optometry & Thomas M Wiley OD | Sandpoint | Optometry | 17.0 mi | (208) 265-4140 |
| Drs. D & W Henker, P.C. | Sandpoint | Optometry | 17.0 mi | (208) 265-4140 |
| Eye Care for You | Sandpoint | Optometry | 17.4 mi | (208) 263-9000 |
| Mountain Vision Eye Care | Sandpoint | Optometry | 17.6 mi | (208) 265-7965 |
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 Priest River Eye Care. 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 9 practices on the Sandpoint page give you the full local field to call around.