Sinai Medical Group, Chicago: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1558409052
- Legal business name
- Mount Sinai Community Foundation
- Registered trading name
- Sinai Medical Group
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology (207W00000X)
- Practice location
- 1501 S California Ave
Chicago, IL 60608-1732 - Phone on the record
- (773) 257-6859
- NPI issued
- February 5, 2007
- Record last updated by the practice
- July 21, 2022
- 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 Mount Sinai Community Foundation and registered Sinai Medical Group 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 2022. 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: Chicago holds 313 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 239 of them optometry and 74 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 60608. 49 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is The Chicago Lighthouse in Chicago, 1.3 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
963 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, 312 of them elsewhere in Chicago. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Chicago Lighthouse | Chicago | Low vision rehabilitation | 1.3 mi | (312) 666-1331 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Chicago | Ophthalmology | 1.3 mi | (312) 996-0933 |
| Envision Eye Care | Chicago | Optometry | 1.5 mi | (312) 492-3615 |
| Eyedoc Sunshine LLC | Chicago | Optometry | 1.5 mi | (312) 270-8988 |
| Onsite Health Partners, LLC | Chicago | Optometry | 1.5 mi | (312) 788-8991 |
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 ophthalmology practice like this
The NPI registry holds no prices, so nothing here is a quote from Sinai Medical Group, and ophthalmology practices do not publish fee schedules. Customers report paying $150 to $300 or more 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 Sinai Medical Group for its self-pay price.
Ophthalmology visits are usually medical rather than routine, which changes who pays: medical insurance and Medicare Part B cover a medically necessary exam, while a routine refraction for glasses is normally not covered. Ask whether the visit will be billed as medical or routine before you book, and compare with the 1,038 optometry practices on the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin page if you only need a prescription.