Carolina Eye, Gastonia: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1578628780
- Legal business name
- Mason & Mincey OD PA
- Registered trading name
- Carolina Eye
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 2396 E Franklin Blvd
Gastonia, NC 28054-4727 - Phone on the record
- (704) 864-7878
- NPI issued
- December 27, 2006
- Record last updated by the practice
- October 10, 2024
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC
- County
- Gaston County
- Locations under this name
- 3 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Mason & Mincey OD PA and registered Carolina Eye as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. 3 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 October 2024, putting it among the 55 of 241 Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Gastonia holds 10 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 8 of them optometry and 2 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 28054. 4 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Gaston Eye Associates in Gastonia, 0.5 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 North Carolina boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
190 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia metro itself there are 241, 9 of them elsewhere in Gastonia. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gaston Eye Associates | Gastonia | Ophthalmology | 0.5 mi | (704) 853-3937 |
| Covenant Eye Care, PA | Gastonia | Ophthalmology | 0.9 mi | (704) 864-7789 |
| Dr Kleinau and Associates | Gastonia | Optometry | 0.9 mi | (707) 867-1392 |
| Myeyedr. | Gastonia | Optometry | 1.1 mi | (704) 865-3937 |
| Accuvision Eye Care OD, PA | Gastonia | Optometry | 1.5 mi | (704) 565-0660 |
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 Carolina Eye. 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 241 practices on the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia page give you the full local field to call around.