America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses, Lutherville Timonium: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1306572045
- Legal business name
- National Vision Inc
- Registered trading name
- America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 38 W Ridgely Rd
Lutherville Timonium, MD 21093-5112 - Phone on the record
- (410) 427-6000
- NPI issued
- July 26, 2022
- Record last updated by the practice
- July 26, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD
- County
- Baltimore County
- Locations under this name
- 543 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name National Vision Inc and registered America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. 543 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 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 last refreshed in July 2022. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 205 of 499 records were updated in 2024 or later and 207 predate 2020.
For local context: Lutherville Timonium holds 2 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 1 of them optometry and 1 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 21093. No other practice in the city took its NPI earlier than this one, which makes it the longest-registered address here. The closest is Eye to Eye in Timonium, 0.2 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
436 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 499, 1 of them elsewhere in Lutherville Timonium. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eye to Eye | Timonium | Optometry | 0.2 mi | (410) 252-5850 |
| Rowen Ophthlmology PC | Lutherville | Ophthalmology | 0.2 mi | (410) 332-9500 |
| Dr A M Glasser OD and Associates PA | Timonium | Optometry | 0.4 mi | (410) 561-5444 |
| Eye Care Associates of MD, LLC | Lutherville Timonium | Ophthalmology | 0.5 mi | (410) 486-1010 |
| Professional Vision Eyecare Inc | Timonium | Optometry | 1.0 mi | (410) 252-7414 |
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, 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 America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses 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 499 practices on the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson page give you the full local field to call around.