Bengal Eye Care, Paterson: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1295562270
- Legal business name
- Zcaf LLC
- Registered trading name
- Bengal Eye Care
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology (207W00000X)
- Practice location
- 399 Union Ave
Paterson, NJ 07502-1951 - Phone on the record
- (973) 968-9699
- NPI issued
- September 16, 2024
- Record last updated by the practice
- September 16, 2024
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
- County
- Passaic County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Zcaf LLC and registered Bengal Eye Care 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 September 2024, putting it among the 163 of 1,021 New York-Newark-Jersey City records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Paterson holds 12 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 11 of them optometry and 1 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 07502. 11 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Opti Eye Care LLC in Paterson, 0.7 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 New Jersey boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
2,181 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the New York-Newark-Jersey City metro itself there are 1,021, 11 of them elsewhere in Paterson. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opti Eye Care LLC | Paterson | Optometry | 0.7 mi | (973) 357-8357 |
| Paterson Eye Care OD PC | Paterson | Optometry | 0.7 mi | (973) 278-1924 |
| Amy Cooper Grossberg P.C. | Paterson | Optometry | 0.7 mi | (973) 278-4480 |
| Eye Contact of Paterson | Paterson | Optometry | 0.7 mi | (973) 278-1838 |
| Myron Bloch OD PC | Paterson | Optometry | 0.7 mi | (973) 278-4480 |
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 ophthalmology practice like this
The NPI registry holds no prices, so nothing here is a quote from Bengal Eye Care. Based on this site's own price research, an ophthalmology practice typically charges $150 to $300 or more for an exam without insurance, against a national average of about $136 and roughly $25 once a vision plan pays its share.
Ophthalmology visits are usually medical rather than routine, which changes who pays: medical insurance and Medicare Part B cover a medically necessary exam, while a routine refraction for glasses is normally not covered. Ask whether the visit will be billed as medical or routine before you book, and compare with the 717 optometry practices on the New York-Newark-Jersey City page if you only need a prescription.