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Saline, MI - NPI registry record

Clarkson Eyecare, Saline: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context

Clarkson Eyecare holds NPI 1194336446, registered with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as an optometry organization under taxonomy code 152W00000X (Optometrist). The practice location on the record is 557 E Michigan Ave Ste A, Saline, MI 48176, inside the Ann Arbor metropolitan statistical area area. The NPI was issued in August 2020, 6 years ago, and the practice last updated its own entry in January 2023.

What the registry record says

NPI number
1194336446
Legal business name
Bennett Optometry LLC
Registered trading name
Clarkson Eyecare
Primary registered specialty
Optometrist (152W00000X)
Practice location
557 E Michigan Ave Ste A
Saline, MI 48176-1588
Phone on the record
(734) 429-4885
NPI issued
August 11, 2020
Record last updated by the practice
January 5, 2023
Registry status
NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
Metro area
Ann Arbor, MI
County
Washtenaw County
Locations under this name
22 registered nationally
Location precision
Street address matched by the US Census geocoder

Reading this record

The practice bills under the legal name Bennett Optometry LLC and registered Clarkson Eyecare as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. 22 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 January 2023. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 10 of 54 records were updated in 2024 or later and 23 predate 2020.

For local context: Saline holds 5 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 5 of them optometry and 0 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 48176. 3 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Saline Optometry, LLC in Saline, 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 Michigan boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.

Nearest registered practices

142 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Ann Arbor metro itself there are 54, 4 of them elsewhere in Saline. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.

PracticeCityRegistered asDistancePhone on record
Saline Optometry, LLCSalineOptometry0.1 mi(734) 429-9454
Rx OpticalSalineOptometry0.3 mi(734) 925-9241
Rx Optical Laboratories, Inc.SalineOptometry0.3 mi(269) 342-0003
Van Optical, P.C.SalineOptometry3.9 mi(734) 944-3782
West Point Optical GroupAnn ArborOptometry4.8 mi(734) 761-8300

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 Clarkson Eyecare, 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 Clarkson Eyecare 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 54 practices on the Ann Arbor page give you the full local field to call around.

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Source and provenance. CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), NPI data dissemination file, August 2026 (October 2026, published October 2026 file). CMS NPI downloadable files. Licence: US federal public data, FOIA-disclosable, no charge; CMS deactivated-NPI display guidance honoured. NPI registry records from the CMS NPPES monthly file. An NPI is a billing identifier, not a licence: CMS does not verify that the holder is licensed or credentialed. Registry contact details are self-reported and are often years out of date. This directory lists organizations only. Individual practitioner records are never published here.

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