Vision Care Clinic, Great Falls: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1720071368
- Legal business name
- Dr. Robert J Sherer PC
- Registered trading name
- Vision Care Clinic
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 3226 10TH Ave S
Great Falls, MT 59405-3449 - Phone on the record
- (406) 205-3552
- NPI issued
- August 30, 2005
- Record last updated by the practice
- June 8, 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 Dr. Robert J Sherer PC and registered Vision Care Clinic 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 June 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 59405. No other practice in the city took its NPI earlier than this one, which makes it the longest-registered address here. The closest is Jordan Neiffer Optometry PLLC DBA Vision Care Clinic 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.
Also registered at this address
1 other organization holds an NPI at the same street address. Shared suites and multi-specialty buildings are common, and it is worth knowing which entity you are actually booking with.
| Organization | Registered as | Record updated |
|---|---|---|
| Jordan Neiffer Optometry PLLC DBA Vision Care Clinic | Optometry | August 2026 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan Neiffer Optometry PLLC DBA Vision Care Clinic | Great Falls | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (460) 771-8240 |
| Boes Eye Care | Great Falls | Ophthalmology | 0.4 mi | (406) 455-2020 |
| Dr. Kenneth A. Ethier OD PC | Great Falls | Optometry | 1.4 mi | (406) 791-5139 |
| Electric City Eyes | Great Falls | Optometry | 1.9 mi | (406) 204-0074 |
| Ozog Eye Care and Laser Center | Great Falls | Ophthalmology | 1.9 mi | (406) 453-1613 |
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 Vision Care Clinic, 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 Vision Care Clinic 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.