The Eye Guy, Great Falls: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1174476162
- Legal business name
- Go and See PC
- Registered trading name
- The Eye Guy
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 701 Smelter Ave NE
Great Falls, MT 59404-1940 - Phone on the record
- (406) 604-8665
- NPI issued
- February 18, 2026
- Record last updated by the practice
- July 8, 2026
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Great Falls, MT
- County
- Cascade County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Go and See PC and registered The Eye Guy 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 July 2026, putting it among the 6 of 13 Great Falls records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Great Falls holds 13 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 11 of them optometry and 2 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 59404. 11 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Saw Corp in Great Falls, 0.0 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 Montana boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
12 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Great Falls metro itself there are 13, 12 of them elsewhere in Great Falls. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saw Corp | Great Falls | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (406) 761-3461 |
| Eye Clinic of Great Falls, P.C. | Great Falls | Optometry | 1.2 mi | (406) 452-9507 |
| Family Eye Care, LLC | Great Falls | Optometry | 1.3 mi | (406) 761-6841 |
| Treasure State Eyecare | Great Falls | Optometry | 1.8 mi | (307) 679-6832 |
| Complete Eye Care PLLC | Great Falls | Optometry | 1.9 mi | (406) 452-5322 |
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 The Eye Guy. 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 13 practices on the Great Falls page give you the full local field to call around.