2020 Westside Eye Care, Buffalo: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1174700793
- Legal business name
- Steven I Bench OD, PC
- Registered trading name
- 2020 Westside Eye Care
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 324 West Ferry Street
Buffalo, NY 14213-1957 - Phone on the record
- (716) 883-4747
- NPI issued
- January 25, 2008
- Record last updated by the practice
- September 17, 2024
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY
- County
- Erie County
- Parent organization
- Steven I Bench OD, PC
- Organization subpart
- Yes, this location bills as a subpart of a larger organization
- Locations under this name
- 2 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Steven I Bench OD, PC and registered 2020 Westside Eye Care as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. CMS records this location as a subpart of Steven I Bench OD, PC, meaning it bills under its own NPI but belongs to a larger organization. 2 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 refreshed in September 2024, putting it among the 26 of 108 Buffalo-Cheektowaga records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Buffalo holds 19 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 15 of them optometry and 4 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 14213. 6 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Rafael Medina, MD, PLLC in Buffalo, 1.1 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 York boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
103 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Buffalo-Cheektowaga metro itself there are 108, 18 of them elsewhere in Buffalo. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rafael Medina, MD, PLLC | Buffalo | Ophthalmology | 1.1 mi | (716) 882-0461 |
| Elizabeth Pierce Olmsted, MD Center for the Visually Impaired | Buffalo | Optometry | 1.3 mi | (716) 882-1025 |
| Schaefer Oculofacial Plastic Surgery, PLLC | Buffalo | Oculoplastic and reconstructive surgery | 1.3 mi | (716) 479-8489 |
| King Opticians | Buffalo | Optometry | 1.5 mi | (716) 883-9550 |
| David J. Rodman, MD, PLLC | Buffalo | Ophthalmology | 1.6 mi | (716) 854-1137 |
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 2020 Westside Eye Care. 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 108 practices on the Buffalo-Cheektowaga page give you the full local field to call around.