Uhlemann Optical Company, Skokie: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1225154404
- Legal business name
- Uhlemann Optical Company
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Non eye care codes on the record
- 1 additional taxonomy code outside optometry and ophthalmology
- Practice location
- 3522 Dempster St
Skokie, IL 60076-2340 - Phone on the record
- (847) 675-4747
- NPI issued
- March 21, 2007
- Record last updated by the practice
- September 11, 2025
- 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 entry was refreshed in September 2025, 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: Skokie holds 18 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 11 of them optometry and 7 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 60076. 6 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Gittele Optical Inc. in Skokie, 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
867 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, 17 of them elsewhere in Skokie. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gittele Optical Inc. | Skokie | Optometry | 0.1 mi | (847) 322-9613 |
| Stuart P. Sondheimer, M.D., S.C. | Skokie | Ophthalmology | 0.7 mi | (847) 677-2794 |
| Greenspan-Weisz Vision Specialists Ltd | Skokie | Optometry | 0.7 mi | (847) 763-9760 |
| Evanston Eyes | Evanston | Optometry | 0.8 mi | (847) 475-3937 |
| America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses | Evanston | Optometry | 0.8 mi | (224) 714-5820 |
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 Uhlemann Optical Company. 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.