Eye Designs, Merrillville: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1659341451
- Legal business name
- John P Czaja OD PC
- Registered trading name
- Eye Designs
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 8100 Broadway, Suite A
Merrillville, IN 46410-6215 - Phone on the record
- (219) 769-2020
- NPI issued
- January 24, 2006
- Record last updated by the practice
- March 7, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN
- County
- Lake County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name John P Czaja OD PC and registered Eye Designs 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 March 2023. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 20 of 105 records were updated in 2024 or later and 63 predate 2020.
For local context: Merrillville holds 21 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 15 of them optometry and 6 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 46410. 1 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Dr. Tavel Family Eye Care in Merrillville, 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 Indiana boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
195 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 105, 20 of them elsewhere in Merrillville. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Tavel Family Eye Care | Merrillville | Optometry | 0.1 mi | (219) 387-0049 |
| Dr. Timothy H. McGillen Professional Optometric Corporation | Merrillville | Optometry | 0.2 mi | (219) 738-2180 |
| Eyecare Plus | Merrillville | Optometry | 0.2 mi | (219) 738-2180 |
| Myeyedr. | Merrillville | Optometry | 0.2 mi | (219) 738-2180 |
| Deschamps Eye Care PC | Merrillville | Ophthalmology | 0.6 mi | (219) 736-2200 |
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 Eye Designs. 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 105 practices on the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin page give you the full local field to call around.