The Retina Group of Washington, PLLC, 520 Upper Chesapeake Dr Ste 401, Bel Air: NPI Registry Record
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1295574135
- Legal business name
- The Retina Group of Washington, PLLC
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Other registered specialties
- Ophthalmology
- Practice location
- 520 Upper Chesapeake Dr Ste 401
Bel Air, MD 21014-4381 - Phone on the record
- (301) 662-4545
- NPI issued
- May 21, 2024
- Record last updated by the practice
- May 21, 2024
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD
- County
- Harford County
- Parent organization
- The Retina Group of Washington, PLLC
- Organization subpart
- Yes, this location bills as a subpart of a larger organization
- Locations under this name
- 36 registered nationally
- Duplicate registrations at this address
- 1 additional NPI for the same name and address, folded into this record
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
Beyond the primary code the record carries Ophthalmology, which is the registry's own signal that the practice covers more than routine work. CMS records this location as a subpart of The Retina Group of Washington, PLLC, meaning it bills under its own NPI but belongs to a larger organization. 36 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 May 2024, 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. 10 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is University Eye Care 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.
Nearest registered practices
281 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University Eye Care | Bel Air | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (410) 328-5929 |
| America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses | Bel Air | Optometry | 0.7 mi | (410) 836-0098 |
| Professional Vision of Bel Air Inc | Bel Air | Optometry | 0.7 mi | (410) 879-1105 |
| Parris Castoro Eye Care Center, P.A. | Bel Air | Ophthalmology | 0.9 mi | (410) 893-0480 |
| Jhu - 620 Boulton St - Provider Type: 20 - Physician | Bel Air | Ophthalmology | 0.9 mi | (410) 893-0480 |
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 The Retina Group of Washington, PLLC, 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 The Retina Group of Washington, PLLC 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.