Duke Eye Center of Raleigh, Raleigh: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1548584717
- Legal business name
- Private Diagnostic Clinic, PLLC
- Registered trading name
- Duke Eye Center of Raleigh
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology (207W00000X)
- Practice location
- 3480 Wake Forest Rd, Suite 300
Raleigh, NC 27609-7376 - Phone on the record
- (919) 862-5380
- NPI issued
- March 17, 2010
- Record last updated by the practice
- July 11, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Raleigh-Cary, NC
- County
- Wake County
- Locations under this name
- 6 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Private Diagnostic Clinic, PLLC and registered Duke Eye Center of Raleigh as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. 6 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 35 of 242 records were updated in 2024 or later and 123 predate 2020.
For local context: Raleigh holds 111 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 80 of them optometry and 31 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 27609. 58 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Raleigh Eye Center, PA in Raleigh, 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 North Carolina boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
265 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 242, 110 of them elsewhere in Raleigh. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raleigh Eye Center, PA | Raleigh | Ophthalmology | 0.2 mi | (919) 876-2427 |
| Taylor Retina Center, PLLC | Raleigh | Ophthalmology | 0.2 mi | (919) 878-4060 |
| Midtown Optometry PLLC | Raleigh | Optometry | 0.6 mi | (984) 213-8863 |
| New Hope Eye Associates Optometric PA | Raleigh | Corneal and contact lens management | 0.6 mi | (919) 341-4769 |
| Richard G. Langellotti, OD | Raleigh | Optometry | 0.6 mi | (919) 850-3246 |
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 Duke Eye Center of Raleigh. 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 192 optometry practices on the Raleigh-Cary page if you only need a prescription.