Great Lakes Eye Care, Saint Joseph: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1922002708
- Legal business name
- Great Lakes Eye Care PC
- Registered trading name
- Great Lakes Eye Care
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology (207W00000X)
- Practice location
- 2848 Niles Rd
Saint Joseph, MI 49085-3352 - Phone on the record
- (269) 428-3300
- NPI issued
- June 9, 2005
- Record last updated by the practice
- January 26, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Niles, MI
- County
- Berrien County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Great Lakes Eye Care PC and registered Great Lakes Eye Care as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. The entry was last refreshed in January 2023. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 1 of 25 records were updated in 2024 or later and 17 predate 2020.
For local context: Saint Joseph holds 14 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 12 of them optometry and 2 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 49085. No other practice in the city took its NPI earlier than this one, which makes it the longest-registered address here. The closest is Advanced Family Eye Care, PC in Saint Joseph, 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
28 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Niles metro itself there are 25, 13 of them elsewhere in Saint Joseph. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Family Eye Care, PC | Saint Joseph | Optometry | 0.1 mi | (269) 429-6781 |
| Advanced Mobile Eye Care, LLC | Saint Joseph | Optometry | 0.1 mi | (269) 429-6781 |
| All Eyes LLC | Saint Joseph | Optometry | 1.3 mi | (269) 983-3200 |
| All Eyes,pc | Saint Joseph | Optometry | 1.3 mi | (269) 983-3200 |
| Rx Optical Laboratories, Inc. | Saint Joseph | Optometry | 1.4 mi | (269) 983-1303 |
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 ophthalmology practice like this
The NPI registry holds no prices, so nothing here is a quote from Great Lakes Eye Care. Based on this site's own price research, an ophthalmology practice typically charges $150 to $300 or more for an exam without insurance, against a national average of about $136 and roughly $25 once a vision plan pays its share.
Ophthalmology visits are usually medical rather than routine, which changes who pays: medical insurance and Medicare Part B cover a medically necessary exam, while a routine refraction for glasses is normally not covered. Ask whether the visit will be billed as medical or routine before you book, and compare with the 23 optometry practices on the Niles page if you only need a prescription.