Impressions Eyecare, Bowie: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1972863975
- Legal business name
- Shields Eye Associates, LLC
- Registered trading name
- Impressions Eyecare
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 15480 Annapolis Rd Ste 230
Bowie, MD 20715-1801 - Phone on the record
- (240) 929-4255
- NPI issued
- May 23, 2012
- Record last updated by the practice
- June 27, 2025
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- County
- Prince George's County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Shields Eye Associates, LLC and registered Impressions Eyecare 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 June 2025, putting it among the 133 of 375 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Bowie holds 18 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 10 of them optometry and 8 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 20715. 5 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Bowie Optometric Group in Bowie, 0.1 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
658 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria metro itself there are 375, 17 of them elsewhere in Bowie. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowie Optometric Group | Bowie | Optometry | 0.1 mi | (301) 262-1210 |
| Myeyedr. | Bowie | Optometry | 0.5 mi | (301) 262-1210 |
| Myeyedr. | Bowie | Optometry | 1.2 mi | (301) 464-4442 |
| Grillo & Company | Bowie | Optometry | 1.7 mi | (443) 204-3939 |
| Mobile Eye Care of Maryland | Bowie | Optometry | 1.7 mi | (443) 204-3939 |
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 Impressions Eyecare. 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 375 practices on the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria page give you the full local field to call around.