Patel Retina Institute, Little Silver: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1437179942
- Legal business name
- Monmouth Retina Consultants, P.A.
- Registered trading name
- Patel Retina Institute
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology (207W00000X)
- Practice location
- 39 Sycamore Ave.
Little Silver, NJ 07739 - Phone on the record
- (732) 530-7730
- NPI issued
- July 20, 2006
- Record last updated by the practice
- April 30, 2024
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
- County
- Monmouth County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Monmouth Retina Consultants, P.A. and registered Patel Retina Institute 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 April 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: Little Silver holds 4 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 1 of them optometry and 3 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 07739. No other practice in the city took its NPI earlier than this one, which makes it the longest-registered address here. The closest is Retina Macula Institute in Little Silver, 0.5 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
668 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, 3 of them elsewhere in Little Silver. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retina Macula Institute | Little Silver | Ophthalmology | 0.5 mi | (908) 285-8287 |
| Visionworks Doctors of Optometry | Shrewsbury | Optometry | 0.7 mi | (732) 460-0916 |
| My Optics of Little Silver | Little Silver | Optometry | 0.8 mi | (732) 530-8610 |
| Goldberg Vision Institute | Little Silver | Ophthalmology | 1.0 mi | (732) 741-7845 |
| Dr. Degirmen Eye Care and Associates LLC | Shrewsbury | Optometry | 1.0 mi | (732) 757-7560 |
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 Patel Retina Institute. 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.