President & Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1477723450
- Legal business name
- President & Fellows of Harvard College
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 75 Mount Auburn St
Cambridge, MA 02138-4960 - Phone on the record
- (617) 496-9506
- NPI issued
- March 6, 2008
- Record last updated by the practice
- July 21, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH
- County
- Middlesex County
- Parent organization
- President & Fellows of Harvard College
- Organization subpart
- Yes, this location bills as a subpart of a larger organization
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
CMS records this location as a subpart of President & Fellows of Harvard College, meaning it bills under its own NPI but belongs to a larger organization. The entry was last refreshed in July 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: Cambridge holds 26 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 18 of them optometry and 8 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 02138. 10 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Harvard Square Eye Care P.C. in Cambridge, 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
572 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, 25 of them elsewhere in Cambridge. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard Square Eye Care P.C. | Cambridge | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (617) 354-5590 |
| Boston Eye Care Center,llc | Cambridge | Ophthalmology | 0.1 mi | (617) 657-9464 |
| Eyecare Associates of Ma, P.C. | Cambridge | Optometry | 0.1 mi | (781) 337-0674 |
| See Inc | Cambridge | Optometry | 0.1 mi | (617) 868-1500 |
| David M Luria OD PC | Cambridge | Optometry | 0.1 mi | (617) 354-3310 |
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 President & Fellows of Harvard College. 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.