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Priest River, ID - NPI registry record

Priest River Eye Care, Priest River: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context

Priest River Eye Care holds NPI 1104316785, 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 6132 Highway 2, Priest River, ID 83856, inside the Sandpoint micropolitan statistical area area. The NPI was issued in May 2018, 8 years ago, and the practice last updated its own entry in March 2023.

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 October 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 2 of 10 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 10. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.

PracticeCityRegistered asDistancePhone on record
Colville Vision SourceNewportOptometry6.2 mi(509) 447-2945
Sandpoint Optometry & Thomas M Wiley ODSandpointOptometry17.0 mi(208) 265-4140
Drs. D & W Henker, P.C.SandpointOptometry17.0 mi(208) 265-4140
Eye Care for YouSandpointOptometry17.4 mi(208) 263-9000
Mountain Vision Eye CareSandpointOptometry17.6 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, 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 Priest River Eye Care 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 10 practices on the Sandpoint 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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