Eye Doctors in Bay City, MI: 14 Registered Practices
Booking here: 79 percent of Bay City records are optometry practices, which is the side of the market that does routine exams at $120 to $200 without insurance. The 3 ophthalmology practices are physician offices and price accordingly, at $150 to $300 or more.
What an eye exam costs around Bay City
No prices exist in the NPI registry, so treat the list below as a call sheet rather than a quote sheet. The nearest published national figure is $95, the median starting exam fee across the 1,280 US retail optical stores that print one on their own store pages (30 September 2026), and Medicare pays $149.64 for a comprehensive new-patient exam (CPT 92004).
America's Best (1 record) is registered in this metro, and retail optical is the $50 to $110 end of the range. Independent optometry runs $120 to $200, and a comprehensive exam is $80 to $120 at the middle half of stores that print a price.
Where the practices are
| City | Practices | Optometry | Ophthalmology |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bay City | 11 | 9 | 2 |
| Auburn | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Pinconning | 1 | 1 | 0 |
City is the free-text value the practice entered in the registry. Every city in this table sits inside the Bay City metropolitan statistical area area as defined by the Census 2023 delineation.
Every registered practice in Bay City
Ordered by city, then by name. Names in blue have a profile page with the full registry record and the nearest alternatives.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Phone on record | Record updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auburn Optical Co. | Auburn | Optometry | (989) 662-2501 | November 2007 |
| Carol L Cooper MD PC | Auburn | Ophthalmology | (989) 832-0042 | November 2008 |
| America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses Registered as National Vision Inc America's Best | Bay City | Optometry | (989) 459-4605 | May 2025 |
| Bay Eye Care Center, PC | Bay City | Optometry | (989) 892-9595 | June 2025 |
| Eyes Registered as Experience Your Eye Specialist, PLC | Bay City | Optometry | (989) 684-7121 | February 2010 |
| Great Lakes Eye Institute | Bay City | Ophthalmology | (989) 793-2820 | May 2020 |
| In Focus Vision Center PLLC | Bay City | Optometry | (989) 684-8840 | September 2024 |
| Lee Newton Inc | Bay City | Optometry | (989) 667-9393 | May 2010 |
| Matthew S. Pestrue OD PLLC | Bay City | Optometry | (989) 684-5526 | October 2009 |
| Newton Eye Care PC | Bay City | Optometry | (989) 667-9393 | March 2014 |
| Richard Eric Strain, O.D., P.L.C. | Bay City | Optometry | (989) 684-8840 | April 2012 |
| Valley Eye Care P.C. | Bay City | Ophthalmology | (989) 892-6616 | December 2009 |
| Vision Quest Optical, LLC | Bay City | Optometry | (989) 778-1414 | January 2020 |
| Pinconning Family Eye Care PC | Pinconning | Optometry | (989) 879-3937 | September 2015 |
Phone numbers are the practice location numbers on the NPI record. They are self-reported, CMS does not verify them, and 9 of these records have not been updated since before 2020. An NPI does not mean the practice is licensed: that is a matter for the Michigan licensing boards.