Clarkson Eyecare, Howell: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1801523246
- Legal business name
- Optometric Physicians of Middletown PA
- Registered trading name
- Clarkson Eyecare
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 53 Kent Rd
Howell, NJ 07731-2452 - Phone on the record
- (732) 534-5622
- NPI issued
- August 5, 2022
- Record last updated by the practice
- August 5, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
- County
- Monmouth County
- Locations under this name
- 11 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Optometric Physicians of Middletown PA and registered Clarkson Eyecare as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. 11 locations nationally are registered under the same name, so pricing and policies are likely to be set at group level rather than at this office. The entry was last refreshed in August 2022. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 163 of 1,021 records were updated in 2024 or later and 629 predate 2020.
For local context: Howell holds 11 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 11 of them optometry and 0 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 07731. 10 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Costello Eye Care in Howell, 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 New Jersey 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Costello Eye Care | Optometry | November 2007 |
Nearest registered practices
236 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, 10 of them elsewhere in Howell. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Costello Eye Care | Howell | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (732) 534-5622 |
| The Eye Doctor | Howell | Optometry | 0.2 mi | (732) 275-8400 |
| America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses | Howell | Optometry | 0.2 mi | (848) 299-0740 |
| Visionworks Doctors of Optometry | Howell | Optometry | 0.2 mi | (732) 901-4158 |
| Carolyn Lobocchiaro, O.D. | Howell | Optometry | 1.0 mi | (732) 367-2040 |
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 Clarkson Eyecare. 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 1,021 practices on the New York-Newark-Jersey City page give you the full local field to call around.