Kentucky Eye Institute, Winchester: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1295426617
- Legal business name
- Kentucky Institute for Eye Health & Surgery
- Registered trading name
- Kentucky Eye Institute
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology (207W00000X)
- Practice location
- 2580 Bypass Rd
Winchester, KY 40391-2387 - Phone on the record
- (859) 745-3060
- NPI issued
- May 17, 2023
- Record last updated by the practice
- May 17, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Lexington-Fayette, KY
- County
- Clark County
- Parent organization
- Kentucky Institute for Eye Health & Surgery
- Organization subpart
- Yes, this location bills as a subpart of a larger organization
- Locations under this name
- 20 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Kentucky Institute for Eye Health & Surgery and registered Kentucky Eye Institute 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 Kentucky Institute for Eye Health & Surgery, meaning it bills under its own NPI but belongs to a larger organization. 20 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 last refreshed in May 2023. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 16 of 77 records were updated in 2024 or later and 38 predate 2020.
For local context: Winchester holds 6 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 3 of them optometry and 3 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 40391. 5 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Ky Eye Institute in Winchester, 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 Kentucky boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
86 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Lexington-Fayette metro itself there are 77, 5 of them elsewhere in Winchester. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ky Eye Institute | Winchester | Ophthalmology | 1.7 mi | (859) 744-9393 |
| Pippen Optometry, P.S.C. | Winchester | Optometry | 2.1 mi | (859) 744-2020 |
| Premier Eye Care, PLLC | Winchester | Ophthalmology | 3.0 mi | (859) 744-3937 |
| Puckett Family Eye Care, PLLC | Winchester | Optometry | 3.0 mi | (859) 744-4429 |
| McClanahan Eye Care | Winchester | Optometry | 3.0 mi | (859) 737-5599 |
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 ophthalmology practice like this
The NPI registry holds no prices, so nothing here is a quote from Kentucky Eye Institute. Based on this site's own price research, an ophthalmology practice typically charges $150 to $300 or more for an exam without insurance, against a national average of about $136 and roughly $25 once a vision plan pays its share.
Ophthalmology visits are usually medical rather than routine, which changes who pays: medical insurance and Medicare Part B cover a medically necessary exam, while a routine refraction for glasses is normally not covered. Ask whether the visit will be billed as medical or routine before you book, and compare with the 53 optometry practices on the Lexington-Fayette page if you only need a prescription.