Eye Care of Iowa - West Des Moines, West Des Moines: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1164285144
- Legal business name
- Eye Care Associates of Co, LLC
- Registered trading name
- Eye Care of Iowa - West Des Moines
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 1905 Ep True Pkwy
West Des Moines, IA 50265-7056 - Phone on the record
- (515) 225-0877
- NPI issued
- February 2, 2024
- Record last updated by the practice
- February 2, 2024
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA
- County
- Polk County
- Parent organization
- Eye Care Associates of Co, LLC
- Organization subpart
- Yes, this location bills as a subpart of a larger organization
- Locations under this name
- 49 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Eye Care Associates of Co, LLC and registered Eye Care of Iowa - West Des Moines 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 Eye Care Associates of Co, LLC, meaning it bills under its own NPI but belongs to a larger organization. 49 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 refreshed in February 2024, putting it among the 21 of 115 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: West Des Moines holds 29 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 17 of them optometry and 12 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 50265. 25 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Eye Care of Iowa P.C. in West Des Moines, 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 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 115, 28 of them elsewhere in West Des Moines. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eye Care of Iowa P.C. | West Des Moines | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (515) 225-0877 |
| Valley Eye Clinic PC | West Des Moines | Optometry | 0.3 mi | (515) 223-1266 |
| Valley Eye Clinic | West Des Moines | Optometry | 0.3 mi | (515) 223-1266 |
| Downtown Eye Care | West Des Moines | Ophthalmology | 1.8 mi | (515) 225-2566 |
| Elizabeth A Brown, M.D. | West Des Moines | Ophthalmology | 1.8 mi | (515) 225-2566 |
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 Eye Care of Iowa - West Des Moines. Based on this site's own price research, an independent optometry practice typically charges $120 to $200 for an exam without insurance, against a national average of about $136 and roughly $25 once a vision plan pays its share.
Ask two things when you call: whether the quoted fee includes the refraction, and what a contact lens fitting adds if you wear lenses, since that takes a visit to $150 to $370. A comprehensive exam is $100 to $250. If price is the deciding factor, the 115 practices on the Des Moines-West Des Moines page give you the full local field to call around.