Apple Eyecare, Fort Wayne: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1285375014
- Legal business name
- Apple Eyecare Fw Southwest LLC
- Registered trading name
- Apple Eyecare
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 4626 W Jefferson Blvd
Fort Wayne, IN 46804-6897 - Phone on the record
- (260) 432-5502
- NPI issued
- April 5, 2022
- Record last updated by the practice
- April 5, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Fort Wayne, IN
- County
- Allen County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Apple Eyecare Fw Southwest LLC and registered Apple Eyecare 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 April 2022. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 15 of 87 records were updated in 2024 or later and 49 predate 2020.
For local context: Fort Wayne holds 76 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 54 of them optometry and 22 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 46804. 65 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Family Eyecare Associates in Fort Wayne, 0.0 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.
Also registered at this address
1 other organization holds an NPI at the same street address. Shared suites and multi-specialty buildings are common, and it is worth knowing which entity you are actually booking with.
| Organization | Registered as | Record updated |
|---|---|---|
| Family Eyecare Associates | Optometry | July 2013 |
Nearest registered practices
98 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Fort Wayne metro itself there are 87, 75 of them elsewhere in Fort Wayne. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family Eyecare Associates | Fort Wayne | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (260) 432-5502 |
| Visions Optical, P.C. | Fort Wayne | Optometry | 0.4 mi | (260) 432-4060 |
| America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses | Fort Wayne | Optometry | 0.5 mi | (260) 702-4850 |
| Embree Optometry PC | Fort Wayne | Optometry | 0.5 mi | (260) 432-8908 |
| Heartland Vision | Fort Wayne | Optometry | 0.5 mi | (260) 434-1998 |
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 Apple Eyecare, and independent optometry practices do not publish fee schedules. Customers report paying $120 to $200 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 Apple Eyecare for its self-pay price.
Ask two things when you call: whether the quoted fee includes the refraction, and what a contact lens fitting adds if you wear lenses (the median published contact-lens fee is $129). A comprehensive exam is $80 to $120 at the middle half of stores that print a price. If price is the deciding factor, the 87 practices on the Fort Wayne page give you the full local field to call around.