America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses, Catonsville: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1235160045
- Legal business name
- America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses
- Registered trading name
- America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 5814 Baltimore National Pike
Catonsville, MD 21228-1308 - Phone on the record
- (410) 944-2222
- NPI issued
- July 6, 2006
- Record last updated by the practice
- November 17, 2025
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD
- County
- Baltimore County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The name matches the America's Best 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 November 2025, putting it among the 201 of 497 Baltimore-Columbia-Towson records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Catonsville holds 14 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 8 of them optometry and 6 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 21228. 2 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Optical Fiar in Baltimore, 0.3 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 Maryland boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
548 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson metro itself there are 497, 13 of them elsewhere in Catonsville. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Optical Fiar | Baltimore | Optometry | 0.3 mi | (410) 744-2411 |
| Sightrite Medical MD LLC | Catonsville | Optometry | 0.7 mi | (212) 764-0008 |
| Catonsville Eye Group, Inc. | Catonsville | Optometry | 1.1 mi | (410) 747-1221 |
| Mlbod, LLC | Catonsville | Optometry | 1.1 mi | (410) 744-1111 |
| Childrens Eye Care LLC | Catonsville | Ophthalmology | 1.2 mi | (410) 744-0400 |
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 America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses. 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 497 practices on the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson page give you the full local field to call around.