Northwestern Medical Group, Lake Forest: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1063821916
- Legal business name
- Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation
- Registered trading name
- Northwestern Medical Group
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Other registered specialties
- Optometrist, Corneal and Contact Management; Optometrist, Vision Therapy
- Practice location
- 900 N Westmoreland Rd, Lower Level 88
Lake Forest, IL 60045-1674 - Phone on the record
- (847) 295-0001
- NPI issued
- August 5, 2014
- Record last updated by the practice
- January 17, 2024
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN
- County
- Lake County
- Locations under this name
- 4 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation and registered Northwestern Medical Group as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. Beyond the primary code the record carries Optometrist, Corneal and Contact Management and Optometrist, Vision Therapy, which is the registry's own signal that the practice covers more than routine work. 4 locations nationally are registered under the same name, so pricing and policies are likely to be set at group level rather than at this office. The entry was refreshed in January 2024, putting it among the 195 of 1,321 Chicago-Naperville-Elgin records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Lake Forest holds 6 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 5 of them optometry and 1 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 60045. 2 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Northshore Eye Care, Ltd in Lake Forest, 0.1 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
592 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, 5 of them elsewhere in Lake Forest. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northshore Eye Care, Ltd | Lake Forest | Ophthalmology | 0.1 mi | (847) 295-2445 |
| Spex | Lake Forest | Optometry | 1.2 mi | (847) 295-2020 |
| Myeyedr. | Lake Forest | Optometry | 1.2 mi | (847) 295-2020 |
| The Optometrists of Lake Forest | Lake Forest | Optometry | 1.3 mi | (847) 283-0800 |
| Pearle Vision | Lake Bluff | Optometry | 1.7 mi | (847) 482-9990 |
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 Northwestern Medical Group. 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 1,321 practices on the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin page give you the full local field to call around.