River Hill Optical, Clarksville: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1205573482
- Legal business name
- River Hill Optical, Inc.
- Registered trading name
- River Hill Optical
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 6030 Daybreak Cir Ste A550
Clarksville, MD 21029-1642 - Phone on the record
- (410) 531-7920
- NPI issued
- May 18, 2022
- Record last updated by the practice
- May 18, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 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 River Hill Optical, Inc. and registered River Hill Optical as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. The entry was last refreshed in May 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: Clarksville holds 2 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 2 of them optometry and 0 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 21029. 1 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Columbia Family Eye Care, Inc. in Clarksville, 0.5 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
795 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 Clarksville. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia Family Eye Care, Inc. | Clarksville | Optometry | 0.5 mi | (410) 531-7507 |
| Eye Associates | Columbia | Optometry | 2.7 mi | (410) 997-1800 |
| Elman Retina Group PA | Columbia | Retina | 2.7 mi | (410) 686-3000 |
| Jhu - Wilmer Eye Institute - Provider Type: 12 | Columbia | Vision therapy | 2.8 mi | (443) 367-4700 |
| Jhu - Wilmer Eye Institute - Provider Type: 20 | Columbia | Ophthalmology | 2.8 mi | (443) 367-4700 |
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 River Hill Optical, 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 River Hill Optical 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.