Friendly Eye Care, Lynn: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1225604234
- Legal business name
- Friendly Eye Care, LLC
- Registered trading name
- Friendly Eye Care
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 780 Lynnway
Lynn, MA 01905-3061 - Phone on the record
- (781) 599-5755
- NPI issued
- June 1, 2021
- Record last updated by the practice
- September 22, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH
- County
- Essex County
- Locations under this name
- 2 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 Friendly Eye Care, LLC and registered Friendly Eye Care as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. 2 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 last refreshed in September 2022. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 103 of 632 records were updated in 2024 or later and 355 predate 2020.
For local context: Lynn holds 4 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 3 of them optometry and 1 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 01905. 3 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Thomas M. Anzaldi, O.D. in Lynn, 0.7 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
527 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, 3 of them elsewhere in Lynn. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas M. Anzaldi, O.D. | Lynn | Optometry | 0.7 mi | (781) 599-2773 |
| Damyanova Eye Associates | Lynn | Pediatric optometry | 0.7 mi | (781) 598-2773 |
| Atlantic Coast Ophthalmology, P.C. | Lynn | Ophthalmology | 1.3 mi | (781) 593-3939 |
| Saini Vision and Optical Boutique P.C. | Saugus | Optometry | 2.4 mi | (781) 233-8344 |
| Drs. Lager & Shuman, Inc. | Saugus | Optometry | 2.9 mi | (781) 233-5544 |
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 Friendly Eye Care. 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.