Eyecare Center, Cary: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1831977917
- Legal business name
- Eyecarecenter, O.D., P.A.
- Registered trading name
- Eyecare Center
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 720 SE Maynard Rd
Cary, NC 27511-5720 - Phone on the record
- (919) 467-0959
- NPI issued
- September 19, 2023
- Record last updated by the practice
- September 29, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Raleigh-Cary, NC
- County
- Wake 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 Eyecarecenter, O.D., P.A. and registered Eyecare Center 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 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. 38 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Eyecarecenter OD PA in Cary, 0.0 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.
Also registered at this address
2 other organizations hold an NPI at the same street address. Shared suites and multi-specialty buildings are common, and it is worth knowing which entity you are actually booking with.
| Organization | Registered as | Record updated |
|---|---|---|
| Eyecarecenter OD PA | Optometry | September 2023 |
| Epic Eye, PLLC | Ophthalmology | November 2025 |
Nearest registered practices
272 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.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eyecarecenter OD PA | Cary | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (636) 200-4393 |
| Epic Eye, PLLC | Cary | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (919) 467-0959 |
| Skeen Eye Care O.D.,pa | Cary | Optometry | 0.2 mi | (919) 460-9074 |
| Cary Eye Center Optometry PA | Cary | Vision therapy | 1.3 mi | (919) 467-3238 |
| America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses | Cary | Optometry | 1.4 mi | (984) 247-8731 |
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 Eyecare 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 Eyecare 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.