Primary Eye Care Associates, Chicago: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1003078577
- Legal business name
- Chander Vision Group Ltd
- Registered trading name
- Primary Eye Care Associates
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 5460 S Archer Ave
Chicago, IL 60638-3033 - Phone on the record
- (773) 735-6090
- NPI issued
- June 26, 2008
- Record last updated by the practice
- July 27, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 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 Chander Vision Group Ltd and registered Primary Eye Care Associates 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 July 2023. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 195 of 1,321 records were updated in 2024 or later and 799 predate 2020.
For local context: Chicago holds 314 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 239 of them optometry and 75 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 60638. 127 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Pearle Vision in Chicago, 1.1 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
980 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, 313 of them elsewhere in Chicago. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pearle Vision | Chicago | Optometry | 1.1 mi | (773) 284-9844 |
| Eyeworks of Chicago DBA | Chicago | Optometry | 1.1 mi | (773) 284-9844 |
| Thomas R. Mizen, M.D. and Associates, LLC | Chicago | Ophthalmology | 1.5 mi | (773) 581-2000 |
| The Optical Place Ltd | Chicago | Optometry | 1.5 mi | (773) 838-8245 |
| Charles S Kefalas Odpc | Chicago | Optometry | 1.6 mi | (773) 582-0660 |
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 Primary Eye Care Associates. 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.