Boynton Health Service, Minneapolis: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1821218173
- Legal business name
- Regents of the University of Minnesota
- Registered trading name
- Boynton Health Service
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Non eye care codes on the record
- 1 additional taxonomy code outside optometry and ophthalmology
- Practice location
- 410 Church St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0222 - Phone on the record
- (612) 625-8400
- NPI issued
- April 27, 2007
- Record last updated by the practice
- July 24, 2025
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI
- County
- Hennepin County
- Parent organization
- Regents of the University of Minnesota
- Organization subpart
- Yes, this location bills as a subpart of a larger organization
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Regents of the University of Minnesota and registered Boynton Health Service as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. CMS records this location as a subpart of Regents of the University of Minnesota, meaning it bills under its own NPI but belongs to a larger organization. The entry was refreshed in July 2025, putting it among the 67 of 355 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Minneapolis holds 28 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 21 of them optometry and 7 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 55455. 10 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Dinkytown Optical in Minneapolis, 0.6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dinkytown Optical | Minneapolis | Optometry | 0.6 mi | (612) 331-7100 |
| Vision World | Minneapolis | Optometry | 1.5 mi | (612) 724-4444 |
| Olson Eye Care, PLLC | Minneapolis | Optometry | 1.7 mi | (952) 210-1960 |
| Minnesota Eye Consultants, PA | Minneapolis | Ophthalmology | 1.8 mi | (952) 888-5800 |
| Retina Center of Minnesota | Minneapolis | Retina | 1.8 mi | (612) 871-2292 |
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 Boynton Health Service. Based on this site's own price research, an independent optometry practice typically charges $120 to $200 for an exam without insurance, against a national average of about $136 and roughly $25 once a vision plan pays its share.
Ask two things when you call: whether the quoted fee includes the refraction, and what a contact lens fitting adds if you wear lenses, since that takes a visit to $150 to $370. A comprehensive exam is $100 to $250. 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.