Eyecare Express, Fort Wayne: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1043737737
- Legal business name
- Eyecare Express
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 4826 Illinois Rd
Fort Wayne, IN 46804-1166 - Phone on the record
- (260) 434-2021
- NPI issued
- August 24, 2017
- Record last updated by the practice
- July 21, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Fort Wayne, IN
- County
- Allen County
- Parent organization
- Eyecare Express
- Organization subpart
- Yes, this location bills as a subpart of a larger organization
- Locations under this name
- 3 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
CMS records this location as a subpart of Eyecare Express, meaning it bills under its own NPI but belongs to a larger organization. 3 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 last refreshed in July 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. 55 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses in Fort Wayne, 0.5 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Family Eyecare Associates | Fort Wayne | Optometry | 0.5 mi | (260) 432-5502 |
| Apple Eyecare | Fort Wayne | Optometry | 0.5 mi | (260) 432-5502 |
| Heartland Vision | Fort Wayne | Optometry | 0.7 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 Eyecare Express, 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 Eyecare Express 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.