Boston Foundation for Sight, Needham: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1023077757
- Legal business name
- Boston Foundation for Sight
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Other registered specialties
- Ophthalmology
- Practice location
- 464 Hillside Ave, Suite 205
Needham, MA 02494-1227 - Phone on the record
- (781) 726-7337
- NPI issued
- March 21, 2006
- Record last updated by the practice
- October 28, 2026
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS November 2026
- Metro area
- Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH
- County
- Norfolk County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
Beyond the primary code the record carries Ophthalmology, which is the registry's own signal that the practice covers more than routine work. The entry was refreshed in October 2026, putting it among the 111 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: Needham holds 10 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 5 of them optometry and 5 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 02494. No other practice in the city took its NPI earlier than this one, which makes it the longest-registered address here. The closest is Boston Eye Associates, P.C. in Needham, 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.
Also registered at this address
1 other organization holds an NPI at the same street address. Shared suites and multi-specialty buildings are common, and it is worth knowing which entity you are actually booking with.
| Organization | Registered as | Record updated |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Eye Associates, P.C. | Ophthalmology | August 2020 |
Nearest registered practices
575 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, 9 of them elsewhere in Needham. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston Eye Associates, P.C. | Needham | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (781) 726-7337 |
| Bright Eyes Needham | Needham | Pediatric optometry | 0.0 mi | (781) 222-3936 |
| Eye Associates of Needham PC | Needham | Ophthalmology | 0.1 mi | (781) 444-6610 |
| Visionco Management, LLC | Needham | Optometry | 0.4 mi | (781) 449-4455 |
| Infocus Eyecare | Needham | Optometry | 0.4 mi | (781) 449-4455 |
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 Boston Foundation for Sight, 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 Boston Foundation for Sight 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.