Visionworks, Lake Charles: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1295769008
- Legal business name
- Jason Wonch, O.D. and Associates, A.P.C.
- Registered trading name
- Visionworks
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 336 W Prien Lake Rd
Lake Charles, LA 70601-8453 - Phone on the record
- (337) 474-3395
- NPI issued
- July 10, 2006
- Record last updated by the practice
- February 26, 2026
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Lake Charles, LA
- County
- Calcasieu Parish
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Jason Wonch, O.D. and Associates, A.P.C. and registered Visionworks as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. The name matches the Visionworks retail brand, which sits at the $50 to $110 end of the exam price range rather than the independent-practice end. The entry was refreshed in February 2026, putting it among the 8 of 19 Lake Charles records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Lake Charles holds 12 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 7 of them optometry and 5 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 70601. 1 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Complete Family Eye Care LLC in Lake Charles, 0.1 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
14 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Lake Charles metro itself there are 19, 11 of them elsewhere in Lake Charles. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Complete Family Eye Care LLC | Lake Charles | Optometry | 0.1 mi | (337) 366-0905 |
| Daniel B. Smith, an Optometry Corporation | Lake Charles | Optometry | 0.4 mi | (337) 502-4550 |
| Optics Unlimited | Lake Charles | Ophthalmology | 1.5 mi | (337) 310-0767 |
| Boreing Vision Clinic Inc | Lake Charles | Vision therapy | 1.5 mi | (337) 474-6161 |
| Falgoust Eye Medical and Surgical | Lake Charles | Ophthalmology | 2.0 mi | (337) 477-0963 |
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 Visionworks, 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 Visionworks 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 19 practices on the Lake Charles page give you the full local field to call around.