Retina Consultants of New Orleans, Metairie: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1184116204
- Legal business name
- Benjamin Guidry MD LLC
- Registered trading name
- Retina Consultants of New Orleans
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology, Retina Specialist (207WX0107X)
- Practice location
- 3636 S I 10 Service Rd W Ste 204
Metairie, LA 70001-6418 - Phone on the record
- (504) 218-4936
- NPI issued
- June 4, 2018
- Record last updated by the practice
- March 14, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- New Orleans-Metairie, LA
- County
- Jefferson Parish
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Benjamin Guidry MD LLC and registered Retina Consultants of New Orleans as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. 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 70001. 31 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is The Retina Institute, L.L.C. in Metairie, 0.6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Retina Institute, L.L.C. | Metairie | Ophthalmology | 0.6 mi | (504) 455-0500 |
| Barbara Noguchi, M.D., LLC | Metairie | Ophthalmology | 0.7 mi | (504) 455-6523 |
| St. Charles Vision | Metairie | Optometry | 0.8 mi | (504) 887-2020 |
| St Charles Vision Severn | Metairie | Optometry | 0.8 mi | (504) 887-2020 |
| Myeyedr. | Metairie | Optometry | 0.8 mi | (504) 541-9025 |
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 Retina Consultants of New Orleans. 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 75 optometry practices on the New Orleans-Metairie page if you only need a prescription.