Carmel Vision Care, Carmel: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1588588271
- Legal business name
- Carmel Vision Care LLC
- Registered trading name
- Carmel Vision Care
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 10485 N Pennsylvania St Ste 100
Carmel, IN 46280-2012 - Phone on the record
- (317) 846-7600
- NPI issued
- August 6, 2026
- Record last updated by the practice
- August 6, 2026
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN
- County
- Hamilton County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Carmel Vision Care LLC and registered Carmel Vision Care as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. The entry was refreshed in August 2026, putting it among the 71 of 375 Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Carmel holds 38 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 26 of them optometry and 12 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 46280. 37 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Dr Lynn Burford P C in Indianapolis, 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.
Nearest registered practices
329 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood metro itself there are 375, 37 of them elsewhere in Carmel. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Lynn Burford P C | Indianapolis | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (317) 846-7600 |
| Lanter Eyecare and Laser Surgery PC | Indianapolis | Optometry | 0.3 mi | (317) 844-6269 |
| Lanter Eyecare and Laser Surgery PC | Carmel | Ophthalmology | 0.3 mi | (317) 844-6269 |
| Midwest Glaucoma Associates | Indianapolis | Ophthalmology | 0.3 mi | (317) 817-1768 |
| Midwest Cornea Associates, LLC | Carmel | Ophthalmology | 0.3 mi | (317) 817-1765 |
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 Carmel Vision Care, 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 Carmel Vision Care 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 375 practices on the Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood page give you the full local field to call around.