Maine Eye Center, PA, Portland: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1720044878
- Legal business name
- Maine Eye Center, PA
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology (207W00000X)
- Other registered specialties
- Optometrist; Optometrist, Corneal and Contact Management
- Non eye care codes on the record
- 4 additional taxonomy codes outside optometry and ophthalmology
- Practice location
- 15 Lowell St
Portland, ME 04102-2776 - Phone on the record
- (207) 774-8277
- NPI issued
- April 25, 2006
- Record last updated by the practice
- October 12, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Portland-South Portland, ME
- County
- Cumberland County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
Beyond the primary code the record carries Optometrist and Optometrist, Corneal and Contact Management, which is the registry's own signal that the practice covers more than routine work. The entry was last refreshed in October 2023. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 6 of 66 records were updated in 2024 or later and 46 predate 2020.
For local context: Portland holds 10 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 5 of them optometry and 5 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 04102. No other practice in the city took its NPI earlier than this one, which makes it the longest-registered address here. The closest is Eyecare Medical Group in Portland, 0.4 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 Maine boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
50 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Portland-South Portland metro itself there are 66, 9 of them elsewhere in Portland. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eyecare Medical Group | Portland | Ophthalmology | 0.4 mi | (207) 828-2020 |
| Eyecare Medical Group | Portland | Ophthalmology | 0.4 mi | (207) 828-2020 |
| The Iris Network | Portland | Low vision rehabilitation | 0.4 mi | (207) 774-6273 |
| Retina Center of Maine, LLC PA | Portland | Retina | 0.4 mi | (207) 773-3937 |
| Maine Medical Center Neonate Eye | Portland | Ophthalmology | 0.5 mi | (207) 662-2179 |
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 Maine Eye Center, PA. 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 55 optometry practices on the Portland-South Portland page if you only need a prescription.