Eye Doctors in Brainerd, MN: 14 Registered Practices
Booking here: 79 percent of Brainerd 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 Brainerd
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).
No national retail optical brand is registered under its own name in this metro, so expect the independent optometry band of $120 to $200 rather than the $50 to $110 retail band. A comprehensive exam is $80 to $120 at the middle half of stores that print a price, and a contact lens fitting is priced separately, at a $129 median published fee.
Where the practices are
| City | Practices | Optometry | Ophthalmology |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter | 7 | 5 | 2 |
| Brainerd | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Pequot Lakes | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Pillager | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Pine River | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Walker | 1 | 1 | 0 |
City is the free-text value the practice entered in the registry. Every city in this table sits inside the Brainerd micropolitan statistical area area as defined by the Census 2023 delineation.
Every registered practice in Brainerd
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Associates in Eyecare | Baxter | Optometry | (218) 829-1789 | May 2021 |
| Breena Dell Clayton, OD | Baxter | Optometry | (218) 855-5756 | February 2014 |
| Lakes Area Eyecare, Inc. | Baxter | Optometry | (218) 829-2929 | February 2014 |
| Lakes Region Retina PC | Baxter | Retina | (218) 580-4218 | May 2026 |
| Midwest Family Eye Center | Baxter | Optometry | (218) 828-9545 | August 2020 |
| Preferred Eyecare, Inc. | Baxter | Optometry | (218) 829-3848 | November 2011 |
| S Sjoberg PLC | Baxter | Ophthalmology | (218) 825-1976 | March 2015 |
| Brainerd Eyecare Center, PA | Brainerd | Optometry | (218) 829-0946 | January 2023 |
| Northern Eye Center PA | Brainerd | Ophthalmology | (218) 829-2020 | October 2007 |
| Crosslake Eye Center Registered as Todd M. Wiedel, O.D., PA | Pequot Lakes | Optometry | (218) 568-5555 | October 2019 |
| Pequot Eye Center Registered as John Kloster | Pequot Lakes | Optometry | (218) 568-5555 | June 2008 |
| Up North Eye Care, P.A. | Pillager | Optometry | (218) 746-2020 | February 2022 |
| Associates in Eyecare Registered as Pine River Eye Center, Inc. | Pine River | Optometry | (218) 587-2020 | September 2015 |
| Park Rapids Walker Eye Clinic O.D., P.A. | Walker | Optometry | (218) 547-3666 | November 2024 |
Phone numbers are the practice location numbers on the NPI record. They are self-reported, CMS does not verify them, and 8 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 Minnesota licensing boards.