Premier Eye Care, Cottage Grove, Cottage Grove: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1497792758
- Legal business name
- Premier Eye Care, Cottage Grove, Ltd
- Registered trading name
- Premier Eye Care, Cottage Grove
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Non eye care codes on the record
- 1 additional taxonomy code outside optometry and ophthalmology
- Practice location
- 6936 Pine Arbor Dr S Ste 110
Cottage Grove, MN 55016-4672 - Phone on the record
- (651) 769-1020
- NPI issued
- June 2, 2006
- Record last updated by the practice
- October 8, 2024
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI
- County
- Washington County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Premier Eye Care, Cottage Grove, Ltd and registered Premier Eye Care, Cottage Grove as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. The entry was refreshed in October 2024, 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: Cottage Grove holds 3 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 3 of them optometry and 0 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 55016. No other practice in the city took its NPI earlier than this one, which makes it the longest-registered address here. The closest is Cottage Grove Optical in Cottage Grove, 1.5 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
240 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, 2 of them elsewhere in Cottage Grove. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cottage Grove Optical | Cottage Grove | Optometry | 1.5 mi | (651) 459-9696 |
| Optometric Physicians LLC | Cottage Grove | Optometry | 3.2 mi | (651) 846-2836 |
| Dr. Bruce Lebert OD | Inver Grove Heights | Optometry | 4.6 mi | (651) 451-1100 |
| Gould Eye Care LLC | Inver Grove Heights | Optometry | 4.6 mi | (651) 451-1100 |
| Eyeworks Optical | Inver Grove Heights | Optometry | 4.6 mi | (651) 451-1100 |
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 Premier Eye Care, Cottage Grove, 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 Premier Eye Care, Cottage Grove 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.