Chen Family Eyecare, Northbrook: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1871283127
- Legal business name
- Edward Chen
- Registered trading name
- Chen Family Eyecare
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 851 Sanders Rd
Northbrook, IL 60062-2901 - Phone on the record
- (847) 564-3937
- NPI issued
- May 10, 2023
- Record last updated by the practice
- May 10, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN
- County
- Cook County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Edward Chen and registered Chen Family Eyecare 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 May 2023. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 198 of 1,321 records were updated in 2024 or later and 796 predate 2020.
For local context: Northbrook holds 7 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 6 of them optometry and 1 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 60062. 6 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Jz Vision LLC in Wheeling, 1.2 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 Illinois boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
873 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin metro itself there are 1,321, 6 of them elsewhere in Northbrook. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jz Vision LLC | Wheeling | Optometry | 1.2 mi | (847) 414-0690 |
| Affordable Optical of Wheeling,inc | Wheeling | Optometry | 1.3 mi | (847) 419-9009 |
| Steven A. Udesky, O.D. & Associates L.L.C. | Northbrook | Optometry | 1.7 mi | (847) 562-2010 |
| Doyle Opticians of Deerfield, Inc | Deerfield | Optometry | 2.4 mi | (847) 498-3737 |
| Anita Han Optometry, LLC | Riverwoods | Optometry | 2.5 mi | (224) 676-1022 |
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 Chen Family Eyecare, 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 Chen Family Eyecare 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 1,321 practices on the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin page give you the full local field to call around.