Baystate Eye Associates, Waltham: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1962488684
- Legal business name
- Michael K Edelstein OD, PC
- Registered trading name
- Baystate Eye Associates
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 446 Moody St
Waltham, MA 02453-0415 - Phone on the record
- (781) 899-3200
- NPI issued
- December 15, 2005
- Record last updated by the practice
- January 29, 2025
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH
- County
- Middlesex County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Michael K Edelstein OD, PC and registered Baystate Eye Associates 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 January 2025, putting it among the 103 of 632 Boston-Cambridge-Newton records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Waltham holds 12 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 4 of them optometry and 8 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 02453. No other practice in the city took its NPI earlier than this one, which makes it the longest-registered address here. The closest is Community Opticians in Waltham, 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 Massachusetts boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
590 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Boston-Cambridge-Newton metro itself there are 632, 11 of them elsewhere in Waltham. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community Opticians | Waltham | Optometry | 0.1 mi | (781) 894-0081 |
| Welch Optics | Waltham | Optometry | 0.2 mi | (781) 894-1128 |
| Martin Richler, M.D. | Waltham | Ophthalmology | 0.6 mi | (781) 891-1447 |
| Putnoi Eye Care, P.C. | Waltham | Ophthalmology | 0.6 mi | (781) 894-2020 |
| 1 on 1 Eyecare | Waltham | Optometry | 1.1 mi | (781) 891-0136 |
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 Baystate Eye Associates. 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 632 practices on the Boston-Cambridge-Newton page give you the full local field to call around.