Altoona Eyecare, Altoona: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1891150256
- Legal business name
- Metro Eyecare Associates LLC
- Registered trading name
- Altoona Eyecare
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 301 Center Pl SW Ste D
Altoona, IA 50009-2589 - Phone on the record
- (515) 967-4095
- NPI issued
- December 29, 2015
- Record last updated by the practice
- April 14, 2026
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA
- County
- Polk County
- Parent organization
- Altoona Eyecare
- Organization subpart
- Yes, this location bills as a subpart of a larger organization
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Metro Eyecare Associates LLC and registered Altoona Eyecare as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. CMS records this location as a subpart of Altoona Eyecare, meaning it bills under its own NPI but belongs to a larger organization. The entry was refreshed in April 2026, putting it among the 22 of 116 Des Moines-West Des Moines records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Altoona holds 3 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 3 of them optometry and 0 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 50009. No other practice in the city took its NPI earlier than this one, which makes it the longest-registered address here. The closest is Mark L Davis OD LLC in Altoona, 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 Iowa boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
106 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Des Moines-West Des Moines metro itself there are 116, 2 of them elsewhere in Altoona. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark L Davis OD LLC | Altoona | Optometry | 0.5 mi | (515) 630-2875 |
| Focus Family Eye Care, P.C. | Altoona | Optometry | 2.1 mi | (515) 518-8283 |
| Eye Care of Iowa PC | Pleasant Hill | Optometry | 4.1 mi | (515) 265-5322 |
| Eye Care of Iowa - Pleasant Hill | Pleasant Hill | Optometry | 4.1 mi | (515) 265-5322 |
| Eye Care of Iowa - East Des Moines | Des Moines | Optometry | 5.8 mi | (515) 262-1094 |
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 Altoona 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 Altoona 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 116 practices on the Des Moines-West Des Moines page give you the full local field to call around.