Sarah H. Appel, O.D., Mount Vernon: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1063638534
- Legal business name
- Sarah H. Appel, O.D.
- Registered trading name
- Sarah H. Appel, O.D.
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 230 W 3RD St
Mount Vernon, IN 47620-1815 - Phone on the record
- (812) 838-4388
- NPI issued
- April 17, 2007
- Record last updated by the practice
- September 30, 2024
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Evansville, IN
- County
- Posey County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The entry was refreshed in September 2024, putting it among the 9 of 54 Evansville records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Mount Vernon holds 2 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 2 of them optometry and 0 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 47620. No other practice in the city took its NPI earlier than this one, which makes it the longest-registered address here. The closest is Keitel Eye Care, P.C. in Mount Vernon, 0.4 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
61 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Evansville metro itself there are 54, 1 of them elsewhere in Mount Vernon. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keitel Eye Care, P.C. | Mount Vernon | Optometry | 0.4 mi | (812) 838-5526 |
| Family First Vision Care Kentucky, LLC | Evansville | Optometry | 14.3 mi | (812) 426-2066 |
| Harmony Eyecare | Evansville | Optometry | 14.6 mi | (812) 423-4984 |
| Simpson & Bigham OD Partnership | Evansville | Optometry | 16.5 mi | (812) 423-5000 |
| Baptist Health Medical Associates | Morganfield | Optometry | 16.6 mi | (270) 389-2323 |
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 Sarah H. Appel, O.D.. 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 54 practices on the Evansville page give you the full local field to call around.