Southern Eye Centers, Plaquemine: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1740472794
- Legal business name
- Roger F Shaw III A Professional Optometry Corporation
- Registered trading name
- Southern Eye Centers
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 23855 Eden St
Plaquemine, LA 70764-3315 - Phone on the record
- (225) 687-2026
- NPI issued
- August 14, 2007
- Record last updated by the practice
- November 22, 2024
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Baton Rouge, LA
- County
- Iberville Parish
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Roger F Shaw III A Professional Optometry Corporation and registered Southern Eye Centers 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 November 2024, putting it among the 9 of 60 Baton Rouge records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Plaquemine holds 1 registered eye care practice in this snapshot, 1 of them optometry and 0 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 70764. No other practice in the city took its NPI earlier than this one, which makes it the longest-registered address here. The closest is Erica Durlacher OD LLC in Baton Rouge, 8.7 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 Louisiana boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
49 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Baton Rouge metro itself there are 60. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erica Durlacher OD LLC | Baton Rouge | Optometry | 8.7 mi | (225) 819-0120 |
| Ideal Vision Care | Baton Rouge | Optometry | 8.9 mi | (225) 766-8788 |
| Russell J Saloom MD | Baton Rouge | Ophthalmology | 9.3 mi | (225) 766-1110 |
| Eye Laser & Surgery Center, LLC | Baton Rouge | Ophthalmology | 9.7 mi | (225) 767-5525 |
| Eye Medical Center, Apmc | Baton Rouge | Optometry | 9.8 mi | (225) 766-7441 |
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 Southern Eye Centers, 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 Southern Eye Centers 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 60 practices on the Baton Rouge page give you the full local field to call around.