Downstate Health Physicians, Brooklyn: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1497709901
- Legal business name
- University Physicians of Brooklyn, Inc.
- Registered trading name
- Downstate Health Physicians
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology (207W00000X)
- Practice location
- 1520 Flatbush Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11210-2450 - Phone on the record
- (718) 270-1714
- NPI issued
- May 20, 2006
- Record last updated by the practice
- May 28, 2024
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
- County
- Kings County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name University Physicians of Brooklyn, Inc. and registered Downstate Health Physicians 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 May 2024, putting it among the 357 of 2,166 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: Brooklyn holds 425 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 312 of them optometry and 113 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 11210. 14 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Brooklyn Vision Center Inc in Brooklyn, 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 York boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
2,377 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 2,166, 424 of them elsewhere in Brooklyn. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brooklyn Vision Center Inc | Brooklyn | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (718) 434-2222 |
| Brooklyn Vision Group Inc | Brooklyn | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (718) 434-2222 |
| Flatbush Optimetric PC | Brooklyn | Optometry | 0.1 mi | (718) 434-0539 |
| Elite Optics Inc | Brooklyn | Optometry | 0.2 mi | (347) 406-9941 |
| Finestone & Wertentheil Mds PC | Brooklyn | Ophthalmology | 0.5 mi | (718) 633-2455 |
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 Downstate Health Physicians. 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 1,447 optometry practices on the New York-Newark-Jersey City page if you only need a prescription.