Lakeside Eye Associates, Huntersville: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1851566772
- Legal business name
- Brad Hearn OD PA
- Registered trading name
- Lakeside Eye Associates
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 16525 Birkdale Cmns Pkwy, Suite 100
Huntersville, NC 28078-3802 - Phone on the record
- (704) 896-3311
- NPI issued
- April 23, 2008
- Record last updated by the practice
- July 21, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC
- County
- Mecklenburg County
- 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 Brad Hearn OD PA and registered Lakeside Eye Associates as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. 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 last refreshed in July 2022. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 56 of 241 records were updated in 2024 or later and 124 predate 2020.
For local context: Huntersville holds 7 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 5 of them optometry and 2 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 28078. 3 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Charlotte Ophthalmology Clinic P.A. in Huntersville, 0.1 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 North Carolina boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
186 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, 6 of them elsewhere in Huntersville. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charlotte Ophthalmology Clinic P.A. | Huntersville | Ophthalmology | 0.1 mi | (704) 895-8200 |
| Charlotte Eye Ear Nose & Throat Associates, PA | Huntersville | Ophthalmology | 1.2 mi | (704) 295-3600 |
| Myeyedr. | Huntersville | Optometry | 1.3 mi | (704) 237-3910 |
| Presbyterian Cosmetic and Laser Center | Cornelius | Ophthalmology | 1.4 mi | (704) 895-5394 |
| Carolina Eye Care OD PA | Cornelius | Optometry | 2.7 mi | (704) 892-3542 |
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 Lakeside Eye Associates, 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 Lakeside Eye Associates 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 241 practices on the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia page give you the full local field to call around.