Eye Care Optical, Kansas City: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1467153601
- Legal business name
- Kansas City Optical, LLC
- Registered trading name
- Eye Care Optical
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 4609 Independence Ave
Kansas City, MO 64124-2927 - Phone on the record
- (913) 717-9296
- NPI issued
- March 14, 2023
- Record last updated by the practice
- March 14, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Kansas City, MO-KS
- County
- Jackson County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Kansas City Optical, LLC and registered Eye Care Optical 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 March 2023. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 15 of 125 records were updated in 2024 or later and 66 predate 2020.
For local context: Kansas City holds 44 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 31 of them optometry and 13 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 64124. 40 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Kansas City Free Eye Clinic in Kansas City, 2.0 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 Missouri boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
247 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Kansas City metro itself there are 125, 43 of them elsewhere in Kansas City. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas City Free Eye Clinic | Kansas City | Optometry | 2.0 mi | (816) 298-6185 |
| Truman Medical Center Incorporated | Kansas City | Ophthalmology | 2.9 mi | (816) 404-7000 |
| Insight Eyecare Specialties Inc | Kansas City | Optometry | 3.0 mi | (816) 474-1916 |
| Family Eyecare | North Kansas City | Optometry | 3.6 mi | (816) 221-5939 |
| Jing Ye, OD., LLC | Kansas City | Optometry | 3.8 mi | (816) 931-4515 |
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 Eye Care Optical. 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 125 practices on the Kansas City page give you the full local field to call around.