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Albuquerque, NM - NPI registry record

505 Eyecare, Albuquerque: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context

505 Eyecare holds NPI 1184364374, registered with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as an optometry organization under taxonomy code 152W00000X (Optometrist). The practice location on the record is 6821 Montgomery Blvd NE Ste C, Albuquerque, NM 87109, inside the Albuquerque metropolitan statistical area area. The NPI was issued in March 2022, 4 years ago, and the practice last updated its own entry in November 2022.

What the registry record says

NPI number
1184364374
Legal business name
505 Eyecare, LLC
Registered trading name
505 Eyecare
Primary registered specialty
Optometrist (152W00000X)
Practice location
6821 Montgomery Blvd NE Ste C
Albuquerque, NM 87109-1444
Phone on the record
(505) 881-7440
NPI issued
March 29, 2022
Record last updated by the practice
November 14, 2022
Registry status
NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
Metro area
Albuquerque, NM
County
Bernalillo County
Location precision
Street address matched by the US Census geocoder

Reading this record

The practice bills under the legal name 505 Eyecare, LLC and registered 505 Eyecare as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. The entry was last refreshed in November 2022. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 17 of 96 records were updated in 2024 or later and 57 predate 2020.

For local context: Albuquerque holds 81 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 68 of them optometry and 13 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 87109. 73 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Folkman Vise and Associates Eye Clinic in Albuquerque, 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 Mexico boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.

Nearest registered practices

93 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Albuquerque metro itself there are 96, 80 of them elsewhere in Albuquerque. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.

PracticeCityRegistered asDistancePhone on record
Folkman Vise and Associates Eye ClinicAlbuquerqueOptometry0.0 mi(505) 881-7440
Jay S. Folkman, OD PCAlbuquerqueOptometry0.0 mi(505) 881-7440
Dr R L Jarrell PAAlbuquerqueOptometry0.2 mi(505) 883-4200
Mikela D. Kwan, Optometric Services, LLCAlbuquerqueOptometry0.3 mi(505) 822-8387
Folkman Vise and Associates Eye ClinicAlbuquerqueOptometry0.3 mi(505) 822-8387

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 505 Eyecare, 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 505 Eyecare 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 96 practices on the Albuquerque page give you the full local field to call around.

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Source and provenance. CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), NPI data dissemination file, August 2026 (October 2026, published October 2026 file). CMS NPI downloadable files. Licence: US federal public data, FOIA-disclosable, no charge; CMS deactivated-NPI display guidance honoured. NPI registry records from the CMS NPPES monthly file. An NPI is a billing identifier, not a licence: CMS does not verify that the holder is licensed or credentialed. Registry contact details are self-reported and are often years out of date. This directory lists organizations only. Individual practitioner records are never published here.

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