Ellicott City Vision, Columbia: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1477363976
- Legal business name
- Baran & Duan PA
- Registered trading name
- Ellicott City Vision
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 9170 Route 108 Ste 202
Columbia, MD 21045-1988 - Phone on the record
- (410) 991-8210
- NPI issued
- January 8, 2025
- Record last updated by the practice
- February 10, 2025
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD
- County
- Howard County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Baran & Duan PA and registered Ellicott City Vision as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. The entry was refreshed in February 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: Columbia holds 32 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 17 of them optometry and 15 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 21045. 22 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Medical Eye Center in Columbia, 0.7 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
743 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, 31 of them elsewhere in Columbia. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medical Eye Center | Columbia | Ophthalmology | 0.7 mi | (410) 997-9900 |
| The National Retina Institute | Columbia | Ophthalmology | 0.7 mi | (410) 821-9490 |
| Goel Vision Columbia | Columbia | Ophthalmology | 0.7 mi | (410) 888-2020 |
| University Eye Care | Columbia | Ophthalmology | 0.7 mi | (410) 328-5929 |
| University Eye Care | Columbia | Ophthalmology | 0.7 mi | (410) 328-5929 |
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 Ellicott City Vision. 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.