Visionworks, Albuquerque: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1801960620
- Legal business name
- Visionworks, Inc.
- Registered trading name
- Visionworks
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 4910 Cutler Ave NE Ste B, N.e.
Albuquerque, NM 87110-4044 - Phone on the record
- (505) 888-2480
- NPI issued
- November 20, 2006
- Record last updated by the practice
- April 7, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Albuquerque, NM
- County
- Bernalillo County
- Locations under this name
- 16 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Visionworks, Inc. and registered Visionworks as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. 16 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 name matches the Visionworks retail brand, which sits at the $50 to $110 end of the exam price range rather than the independent-practice end. The entry was last refreshed in April 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 87110. 13 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Adventure Dental Vision and Orthondontics in Albuquerque, 0.3 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.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adventure Dental Vision and Orthondontics | Albuquerque | Optometry | 0.3 mi | (505) 872-1212 |
| Desert Mountain Eyecare LLC | Albuquerque | Optometry | 0.5 mi | (505) 610-7626 |
| Visualize Optometry | Albuquerque | Optometry | 0.8 mi | (505) 889-3339 |
| National Vision, Inc. | Albuquerque | Optometry | 0.9 mi | (505) 888-3637 |
| Beyond 20 20 PC | Albuquerque | Optometry | 1.0 mi | (505) 884-8722 |
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 Visionworks, 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 Visionworks 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.