Jhu - 1800 Orleans St - Provider Type: 12 - Vision, Baltimore: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1255286241
- Legal business name
- Johns Hopkins University
- Registered trading name
- Jhu - 1800 Orleans St - Provider Type: 12 - Vision
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist, Vision Therapy (152WV0400X)
- Practice location
- 1800 Orleans St
Baltimore, MD 21287-0010 - Phone on the record
- (410) 955-5000
- NPI issued
- March 4, 2026
- Record last updated by the practice
- March 4, 2026
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD
- County
- Baltimore city
- Locations under this name
- 24 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Johns Hopkins University and registered Jhu - 1800 Orleans St - Provider Type: 12 - Vision as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. 24 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 entry was refreshed in March 2026, putting it among the 205 of 499 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: Baltimore holds 137 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 78 of them optometry and 59 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 21287. 133 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Jhu - Wilmer Eye Institute in Baltimore, 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
492 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, 136 of them elsewhere in Baltimore. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jhu - Wilmer Eye Institute | Baltimore | Ophthalmology | 0.2 mi | (410) 614-5115 |
| Jhu - Wilmer Eye Institure/Od's | Baltimore | Optometry | 0.2 mi | (410) 955-5080 |
| Jhu - 601 N Caroline St - Provider Type: 12 - Vision | Baltimore | Optometry | 0.2 mi | (410) 955-5000 |
| Penn Optical Co. Ltd | Baltimore | Optometry | 0.4 mi | (410) 327-7070 |
| Saint Paul Place Specialists, Inc. | Baltimore | Optometry | 1.1 mi | (410) 332-9500 |
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 Jhu - 1800 Orleans St - Provider Type: 12 - Vision, 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 Jhu - 1800 Orleans St - Provider Type: 12 - Vision 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.