Valley Eye Clinic, 2020 Grand Ave, West Des Moines: NPI Registry Record
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1336660968
- Legal business name
- Ward Vision LLC
- Registered trading name
- Valley Eye Clinic
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 2020 Grand Ave
West Des Moines, IA 50265-4200 - Phone on the record
- (515) 223-1266
- NPI issued
- July 5, 2017
- Record last updated by the practice
- July 13, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA
- County
- Polk County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Ward Vision LLC and registered Valley Eye Clinic as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. The entry was last refreshed in July 2023. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 21 of 115 records were updated in 2024 or later and 69 predate 2020.
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. 22 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Valley Eye Clinic PC 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valley Eye Clinic PC | West Des Moines | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (515) 223-1266 |
| Eye Care of Iowa P.C. | West Des Moines | Optometry | 0.3 mi | (515) 225-0877 |
| Eye Care of Iowa - West Des Moines | West Des Moines | Optometry | 0.3 mi | (515) 225-0877 |
| Downtown Eye Care | West Des Moines | Ophthalmology | 2.1 mi | (515) 225-2566 |
| Elizabeth A Brown, M.D. | West Des Moines | Ophthalmology | 2.1 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 Valley Eye Clinic. 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.