Eye Doctors in Ames, IA: 10 Registered Practices
Booking here: 100 percent of Ames records are optometry practices, which is the side of the market that does routine exams at $120 to $200 without insurance. The 0 ophthalmology practices are physician offices and price accordingly, at $150 to $300 or more.
What an eye exam costs around Ames
No prices exist in the NPI registry, so treat the list below as a call sheet rather than a quote sheet. The nearest published national figure is $95, the median starting exam fee across the 1,280 US retail optical stores that print one on their own store pages (30 September 2026), and Medicare pays $149.64 for a comprehensive new-patient exam (CPT 92004).
No national retail optical brand is registered under its own name in this metro, so expect the independent optometry band of $120 to $200 rather than the $50 to $110 retail band. A comprehensive exam is $80 to $120 at the middle half of stores that print a price, and a contact lens fitting is priced separately, at a $129 median published fee.
Where the practices are
| City | Practices | Optometry | Ophthalmology |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ames | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| Boone | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Huxley | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Nevada | 1 | 1 | 0 |
City is the free-text value the practice entered in the registry. Every city in this table sits inside the Ames metropolitan statistical area area as defined by the Census 2023 delineation.
Every registered practice in Ames
Ordered by city, then by name. Names in blue have a profile page with the full registry record and the nearest alternatives.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Phone on record | Record updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ames Eye Clinic Registered as John E Kruger, O.D., P.C. | Ames | Optometry | (515) 232-3451 | October 2007 |
| Ames Family Vision Registered as Thornton Eye Care | Ames | Optometry | (712) 261-1915 | October 2014 |
| Eyecare Partners, P.C. | Ames | Optometry | (641) 628-9225 | March 2019 |
| Larson Eyecare Inc | Ames | Optometry | (515) 956-3553 | June 2008 |
| Mark Dill OD PLC | Ames | Optometry | (515) 337-1601 | June 2015 |
| Styleyes Ames Registered as Wittrock & Eckhart, PLLC | Ames | Optometry | (515) 232-1436 | February 2012 |
| Tuttle Eye Care, Inc. | Ames | Corneal and contact lens management | (515) 233-5664 | October 2007 |
| Boone Vision Center LLC | Boone | Optometry | (515) 432-2973 | July 2008 |
| Huxley Vision Clinic Registered as Sara Khan OD PC | Huxley | Optometry | (515) 597-5200 | February 2026 |
| Nevada Vision Clinic Registered as Robb Schmidt, OD, PC | Nevada | Optometry | (515) 382-2744 | August 2020 |
Phone numbers are the practice location numbers on the NPI record. They are self-reported, CMS does not verify them, and 8 of these records have not been updated since before 2020. An NPI does not mean the practice is licensed: that is a matter for the Iowa licensing boards.