Dr Tavel Family Eye Care, Elkhart: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1891784971
- Legal business name
- City Optical Co., Inc.
- Registered trading name
- Dr Tavel Family Eye Care
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 206 Concord Mall Dr
Elkhart, IN 46517-3154 - Phone on the record
- (574) 875-4499
- NPI issued
- October 20, 2005
- Record last updated by the practice
- July 22, 2026
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Elkhart-Goshen, IN
- County
- Elkhart County
- Locations under this name
- 30 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name City Optical Co., Inc. and registered Dr Tavel Family Eye Care as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. 30 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 July 2026, putting it among the 2 of 24 Elkhart-Goshen records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Elkhart holds 16 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 10 of them optometry and 6 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 46517. No other practice in the city took its NPI earlier than this one, which makes it the longest-registered address here. The closest is C & B Optical One in Elkhart, 0.3 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 Indiana boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
89 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Elkhart-Goshen metro itself there are 24, 15 of them elsewhere in Elkhart. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C & B Optical One | Elkhart | Optometry | 0.3 mi | (574) 875-8511 |
| C&B Optical One | Elkhart | Optometry | 0.3 mi | (574) 875-8511 |
| Myeyedr. | Elkhart | Optometry | 0.3 mi | (574) 875-8511 |
| West Point Optical Group | Goshen | Optometry | 2.3 mi | (574) 875-5042 |
| Boling Vision Center, LLC | Elkhart | Ophthalmology | 2.4 mi | (574) 293-3545 |
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 Dr Tavel Family Eye Care. 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 24 practices on the Elkhart-Goshen page give you the full local field to call around.