A Chance to Grow, Inc., Minneapolis: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1720347875
- Legal business name
- A Chance to Grow, Inc.
- Registered trading name
- A Chance to Grow, Inc.
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Other registered specialties
- Optometrist, Vision Therapy
- Practice location
- 1800 2ND St NE
Minneapolis, MN 55418-4306 - Phone on the record
- (612) 789-1236
- NPI issued
- May 10, 2012
- Record last updated by the practice
- January 18, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI
- County
- Hennepin County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
Beyond the primary code the record carries Optometrist, Vision Therapy, which is the registry's own signal that the practice covers more than routine work. The entry was last refreshed in January 2023. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 67 of 355 records were updated in 2024 or later and 198 predate 2020.
For local context: Minneapolis holds 28 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 21 of them optometry and 7 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 55418. 18 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Olson Eye Care, PLLC in Minneapolis, 1.1 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 Minnesota boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
312 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington metro itself there are 355, 27 of them elsewhere in Minneapolis. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olson Eye Care, PLLC | Minneapolis | Optometry | 1.1 mi | (952) 210-1960 |
| Downtown Eyes Optometric PLLC | Minneapolis | Optometry | 2.1 mi | (612) 333-3937 |
| Eye Care Associates PA | Minneapolis | Ophthalmology | 2.2 mi | (612) 338-4861 |
| Dr. Freed & Associates, Inc. | Minneapolis | Optometry | 2.2 mi | (612) 338-7551 |
| Dinkytown Optical | Minneapolis | Optometry | 2.3 mi | (612) 331-7100 |
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 A Chance to Grow, Inc., 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 A Chance to Grow, Inc. 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 355 practices on the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington page give you the full local field to call around.