St. Jude Eye Care, Brooklyn: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1184070344
- Legal business name
- Swathi Reddy MD P C
- Registered trading name
- St. Jude Eye Care
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology (207W00000X)
- Practice location
- 9413 Flatlands Ave Ste 205W
Brooklyn, NY 11236-3718 - Phone on the record
- (718) 257-4549
- NPI issued
- May 6, 2016
- Record last updated by the practice
- April 13, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 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 Swathi Reddy MD P C and registered St. Jude Eye Care 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 April 2023. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 373 of 2,176 records were updated in 2024 or later and 1,246 predate 2020.
For local context: Brooklyn holds 430 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 317 of them optometry and 113 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 11236. 278 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Optic Designs in Brooklyn, 0.2 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
2,391 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 2,176, 429 of them elsewhere in Brooklyn. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Optic Designs | Brooklyn | Optometry | 0.2 mi | (718) 257-2339 |
| David's Optical Inc | Brooklyn | Optometry | 0.3 mi | (718) 942-4670 |
| Contemporary Eye Care | Brooklyn | Optometry | 0.5 mi | (718) 513-9666 |
| Retina Group P.C. | Brooklyn | Ophthalmology | 1.0 mi | (718) 798-3030 |
| Clear Vision Optometry PC | Brooklyn | Optometry | 1.1 mi | (718) 495-8801 |
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 St. Jude Eye Care, and ophthalmology practices do not publish fee schedules. Customers report paying $150 to $300 or more 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 St. Jude Eye Care for its self-pay price.
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 1,457 optometry practices on the New York-Newark-Jersey City page if you only need a prescription.