Low Vision Center, 4324 Veterans Blvd, Suite 104, Metairie: NPI Registry Record
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1306089255
- Legal business name
- Thomas Terrell McGinn Jr OD LLC
- Registered trading name
- Low Vision Center
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist, Low Vision Rehabilitation (152WL0500X)
- Practice location
- 4324 Veterans Blvd, Suite 104
Metairie, LA 70006 - Phone on the record
- (504) 455-7619
- NPI issued
- April 8, 2009
- Record last updated by the practice
- March 30, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- New Orleans-Metairie, LA
- County
- Jefferson Parish
- Locations under this name
- 2 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Thomas Terrell McGinn Jr OD LLC and registered Low Vision Center as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. 2 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 March 2023. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 15 of 119 records were updated in 2024 or later and 72 predate 2020.
For local context: Metairie holds 38 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 16 of them optometry and 22 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 70006. 19 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Scott D Lanoux MD & Associates LLC in Metairie, 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 Louisiana boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
117 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the New Orleans-Metairie metro itself there are 119, 37 of them elsewhere in Metairie. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott D Lanoux MD & Associates LLC | Metairie | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (504) 883-7690 |
| Miles H. Friedlander, Apmc | Metairie | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (504) 455-0068 |
| Eyecare Associates | Metairie | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (504) 455-9825 |
| Low Vision Center | Metairie | Low vision rehabilitation | 0.0 mi | (504) 455-7619 |
| Ochsner Vision Center Clearview | Metairie | Ophthalmology | 0.1 mi | (225) 480-7539 |
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 Low Vision Center. 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 119 practices on the New Orleans-Metairie page give you the full local field to call around.