Jhu - 620 Boulton St - Provider Type: 20 - Physician, Bel Air: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1982559977
- Legal business name
- Johns Hopkins University
- Registered trading name
- Jhu - 620 Boulton St - Provider Type: 20 - Physician
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology (207W00000X)
- Practice location
- 620 Boulton St
Bel Air, MD 21014-4255 - Phone on the record
- (410) 893-0480
- 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
- Harford County
- 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 - 620 Boulton St - Provider Type: 20 - Physician 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: Bel Air holds 16 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 11 of them optometry and 5 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 21014. 15 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Parris Castoro Eye Care Center, P.A. in Bel Air, 0.0 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.
Also registered at this address
1 other organization holds an NPI at the same street address. Shared suites and multi-specialty buildings are common, and it is worth knowing which entity you are actually booking with.
| Organization | Registered as | Record updated |
|---|---|---|
| Parris Castoro Eye Care Center, P.A. | Ophthalmology | February 2010 |
Nearest registered practices
286 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, 15 of them elsewhere in Bel Air. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parris Castoro Eye Care Center, P.A. | Bel Air | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (410) 893-0480 |
| Professional Vision of Bel Air Inc | Bel Air | Optometry | 0.3 mi | (410) 879-1105 |
| America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses | Bel Air | Optometry | 0.3 mi | (410) 836-0098 |
| Myeyedr. | Bel Air | Optometry | 0.7 mi | (410) 879-0044 |
| University Eye Care | Bel Air | Ophthalmology | 0.8 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 ophthalmology practice like this
The NPI registry holds no prices, so nothing here is a quote from Jhu - 620 Boulton St - Provider Type: 20 - Physician, and ophthalmology practices do not publish fee schedules. Customers report paying $150 to $300 or more 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 - 620 Boulton St - Provider Type: 20 - Physician for its self-pay price.
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 317 optometry practices on the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson page if you only need a prescription.