Family Eye Health Center, Des Moines: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1861250623
- Legal business name
- Feh Optometry
- Registered trading name
- Family Eye Health Center
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 6004 SW 9TH St
Des Moines, IA 50315-5011 - Phone on the record
- (515) 287-0820
- NPI issued
- March 7, 2024
- Record last updated by the practice
- March 7, 2024
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA
- County
- Polk County
- Duplicate registrations at this address
- 1 additional NPI for the same name and address, folded into this record
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Feh Optometry and registered Family Eye Health Center 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 March 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: Des Moines holds 23 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 20 of them optometry and 3 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 50315. 21 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Family Eyehealth Center LLC in 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.
Also registered at this address
1 other organization holds an NPI at the same street address. Shared suites and multi-specialty buildings are common, and it is worth knowing which entity you are actually booking with.
| Organization | Registered as | Record updated |
|---|---|---|
| Family Eyehealth Center LLC | Optometry | March 2023 |
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, 22 of them elsewhere in Des Moines. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family Eyehealth Center LLC | Des Moines | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (515) 287-0820 |
| Eye Care of Iowa PC | Des Moines | Optometry | 0.4 mi | (515) 287-5565 |
| Eye Care of Iowa - South Des Moines | Des Moines | Optometry | 0.4 mi | (515) 287-5565 |
| Eyecare Partners, P.C. | Des Moines | Optometry | 1.6 mi | (515) 285-3568 |
| Ultra Eyecare, P.C. | Des Moines | Optometry | 1.6 mi | (515) 285-3568 |
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 Family Eye Health Center. 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.