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Cary, NC - NPI registry record

Bright Vision Center, Cary: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context

Bright Vision Center holds NPI 1295093144, registered with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as an optometry organization under taxonomy code 152W00000X (Optometrist). The practice location on the record is 836 E Chatham St Ste 106, Cary, NC 27511, inside the Raleigh-Cary metropolitan statistical area area. The NPI was issued in April 2012, 14 years ago, and the practice last updated its own entry in September 2023.

What the registry record says

NPI number
1295093144
Legal business name
Dr. Rolando Ortiz, Optometrist, PLLC
Registered trading name
Bright Vision Center
Primary registered specialty
Optometrist (152W00000X)
Practice location
836 E Chatham St Ste 106
Cary, NC 27511-6967
Phone on the record
(919) 755-3444
NPI issued
April 29, 2012
Record last updated by the practice
September 8, 2023
Registry status
NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
County
Wake County
Location precision
Street address matched by the US Census geocoder

Reading this record

The practice bills under the legal name Dr. Rolando Ortiz, Optometrist, PLLC and registered Bright Vision Center 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 September 2023. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 38 of 243 records were updated in 2024 or later and 122 predate 2020.

For local context: Cary holds 42 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 32 of them optometry and 10 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 27511. 21 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Cary Optometric, PA in Cary, 1.3 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

273 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Raleigh-Cary metro itself there are 243, 41 of them elsewhere in Cary. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.

PracticeCityRegistered asDistancePhone on record
Cary Optometric, PACaryOptometry1.3 mi(919) 439-7995
Skeen Eye Care O.D.,paCaryOptometry1.4 mi(919) 460-9074
Eyecarecenter OD PACaryOptometry1.6 mi(636) 200-4393
Eyecare CenterCaryOptometry1.6 mi(919) 467-0959
Epic Eye, PLLCCaryOphthalmology1.6 mi(919) 467-0959

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 Bright Vision Center, 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 Bright Vision Center 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 243 practices on the Raleigh-Cary page give you the full local field to call around.

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Source and provenance. CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), NPI data dissemination file, August 2026 (October 2026, published October 2026 file). CMS NPI downloadable files. Licence: US federal public data, FOIA-disclosable, no charge; CMS deactivated-NPI display guidance honoured. NPI registry records from the CMS NPPES monthly file. An NPI is a billing identifier, not a licence: CMS does not verify that the holder is licensed or credentialed. Registry contact details are self-reported and are often years out of date. This directory lists organizations only. Individual practitioner records are never published here.

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