Heath Family Eyecare, Fort Dodge: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1740477819
- Legal business name
- Heath Family Eyecare Inc
- Registered trading name
- Heath Family Eyecare
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 1511 1ST Ave S
Fort Dodge, IA 50501-5012 - Phone on the record
- (515) 955-7777
- NPI issued
- October 2, 2007
- Record last updated by the practice
- June 9, 2025
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Fort Dodge, IA
- County
- Webster County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Heath Family Eyecare Inc and registered Heath Family Eyecare 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 June 2025, 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. 3 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Jeffrey S Foreman OD in Fort Dodge, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jeffrey S Foreman OD | Optometry | November 2011 |
Nearest registered practices
11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeffrey S Foreman OD | Fort Dodge | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (515) 955-7777 |
| Medical Arts Eyecare, PLC | Fort Dodge | Optometry | 0.2 mi | (515) 573-1145 |
| R. Y. Jacobson, OD | Fort Dodge | Optometry | 0.2 mi | (515) 573-1145 |
| Central Iowa Eyecare | Fort Dodge | Optometry | 0.3 mi | (515) 576-1261 |
| 515 Vision Care | Fort Dodge | Optometry | 2.0 mi | (515) 573-1145 |
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 Heath Family Eyecare. 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 7 practices on the Fort Dodge page give you the full local field to call around.