Blue Hills Eye Associates, 340 Wood Rd Ste 2020, Braintree: NPI Registry Record
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1396508735
- Legal business name
- Tchao Eye Associates LLC
- Registered trading name
- Blue Hills Eye Associates
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 340 Wood Rd Ste 2020
Braintree, MA 02184-2404 - Phone on the record
- (781) 794-2200
- NPI issued
- January 30, 2024
- Record last updated by the practice
- January 30, 2024
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH
- County
- Norfolk County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Tchao Eye Associates LLC and registered Blue Hills 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 2024, putting it among the 109 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: Braintree holds 6 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 6 of them optometry and 0 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 02184. 5 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Blue Hills Eye Associates in Braintree, 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 Massachusetts boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
534 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, 5 of them elsewhere in Braintree. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Hills Eye Associates | Braintree | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (781) 794-2200 |
| Braintree Eye Associates, PC | Braintree | Optometry | 0.7 mi | (781) 849-9944 |
| Cohen's Fashion Optical | Braintree | Optometry | 0.7 mi | (781) 848-4481 |
| Eye See Eye, LLC | Braintree | Optometry | 0.7 mi | (617) 858-4420 |
| Braintree Vision Associates | Braintree | Optometry | 1.4 mi | (781) 848-2020 |
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 Blue Hills Eye Associates, 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 Blue Hills Eye Associates 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 632 practices on the Boston-Cambridge-Newton page give you the full local field to call around.