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
- August 20, 2026
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 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 August 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, 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 The Eye Guy 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 13 practices on the Great Falls page give you the full local field to call around.