Maryland Eye Care Center, 8630 Fenton St Ste 130, Silver Spring: NPI Registry Record
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1053151803
- Legal business name
- Saman F Ghahremani MD PC
- Registered trading name
- Maryland Eye Care Center
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology (207W00000X)
- Practice location
- 8630 Fenton St Ste 130
Silver Spring, MD 20910-3803 - Phone on the record
- (301) 431-0431
- NPI issued
- May 29, 2024
- Record last updated by the practice
- March 5, 2025
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- County
- Montgomery County
- Locations under this name
- 3 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
The practice bills under the legal name Saman F Ghahremani MD PC and registered Maryland Eye Care Center as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. 3 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 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: Silver Spring holds 44 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 24 of them optometry and 20 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 20910. 30 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Silver Spring Eye in Silver Spring, 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
783 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, 43 of them elsewhere in Silver Spring. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silver Spring Eye | Silver Spring | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (301) 587-1220 |
| Harold I. Rodman, M.D. & Joel M. Engelstein. M.D. | Silver Spring | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (301) 588-1177 |
| American Eye Care Canter Inc | Silver Spring | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (301) 589-7474 |
| Glaucoma Consultants of Washington | Silver Spring | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (240) 804-1234 |
| The Retina Group of Washington, PLLC | Silver Spring | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (301) 495-2357 |
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 Maryland Eye Care Center. Based on this site's own price research, an ophthalmology practice typically charges $150 to $300 or more for an exam without insurance, against a national average of about $136 and roughly $25 once a vision plan pays its share.
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 238 optometry practices on the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria page if you only need a prescription.