515 Vision Care, Fort Dodge: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1104689165
- Legal business name
- Eye Care Associates of Co LLC
- Registered trading name
- 515 Vision Care
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 1534 28TH Ave N
Fort Dodge, IA 50501-7602 - Phone on the record
- (515) 573-1145
- NPI issued
- February 2, 2024
- Record last updated by the practice
- February 2, 2024
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Fort Dodge, IA
- County
- Webster 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
- 50 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 515 Vision Care 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. 50 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 2 of 7 Fort Dodge records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Fort Dodge holds 6 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 6 of them optometry and 0 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 50501. 5 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Medical Arts Eyecare, PLC in Fort Dodge, 1.7 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
10 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Fort Dodge metro itself there are 7, 5 of them elsewhere in Fort Dodge. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medical Arts Eyecare, PLC | Fort Dodge | Optometry | 1.7 mi | (515) 573-1145 |
| R. Y. Jacobson, OD | Fort Dodge | Optometry | 1.7 mi | (515) 573-1145 |
| Central Iowa Eyecare | Fort Dodge | Optometry | 1.8 mi | (515) 576-1261 |
| Jeffrey S Foreman OD | Fort Dodge | Optometry | 2.0 mi | (515) 955-7777 |
| Heath Family Eyecare | Fort Dodge | Optometry | 2.0 mi | (515) 955-7777 |
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 515 Vision Care, 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 515 Vision Care 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 7 practices on the Fort Dodge page give you the full local field to call around.