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Sanford - CMS NPI registry, October 2026

Eye Doctors in Sanford, NC: 9 Registered Practices

9 eye care organizations on the North Carolina side of the Sanford micropolitan statistical area area hold a current NPI in the October 2026 CMS file: 8 optometry practices (89 percent) and 1 ophthalmology practices. They spread across 1 city, led by Sanford (9). The metro covers Lee County. 2 records were refreshed by the practice in 2024 or later and 5 have not been updated since before 2020.

Booking here: 89 percent of Sanford records are optometry practices, which is the side of the market that does routine exams at $120 to $200 without insurance. The 1 ophthalmology practices are physician offices and price accordingly, at $150 to $300 or more.

Registered practices
9
2 with a profile page
Optometry
8
89% of this metro
Ophthalmology
1
0 register a subspecialty
Cities covered
1
1 county
Address matched
89%
rest placed at a ZIP code centroid

What an eye exam costs around Sanford

No prices exist in the NPI registry, so treat the list below as a call sheet rather than a quote sheet. The nearest published national figure is $95, the median starting exam fee across the 1,280 US retail optical stores that print one on their own store pages (30 September 2026), and Medicare pays $149.64 for a comprehensive new-patient exam (CPT 92004).

No national retail optical brand is registered under its own name in this metro, so expect the independent optometry band of $120 to $200 rather than the $50 to $110 retail band. A comprehensive exam is $80 to $120 at the middle half of stores that print a price, and a contact lens fitting is priced separately, at a $129 median published fee.

Every registered practice in Sanford

Ordered by city, then by name. Names in blue have a profile page with the full registry record and the nearest alternatives.

PracticeCityRegistered asPhone on recordRecord updated
Carolina Eye Associates PA
Registered as Carolina Eye Associates Inc
SanfordOphthalmology(919) 776-7549October 2025
Carolina Vision Associates
Registered as Sanford Optometric OD PA
SanfordOptometry(919) 776-2032January 2013
Central Carolina Optometry
Registered as Katherine H. Johnson OD
SanfordOptometry(919) 774-3310August 2020
Eyecarecenter OD PASanfordOptometry(636) 200-4393September 2023
Family Eye Care Optometry
Registered as C.V. Sikes,jr. & R.B. Gotschalk Ptr
SanfordOptometry(919) 774-3556June 2008
Mark C Mitchum ODSanfordOptometry(919) 775-5221March 2008
North Carolina Physicians Eyecare Group, P.C.SanfordOptometry(877) 350-3399July 2025
O'Connell & Martin Eye Associates
Registered as Vision One Eye Center OD PA
SanfordOptometry(919) 776-1012December 2011
Roscoe Optometric Clinic PASanfordOptometry(919) 776-2712November 2011

Phone numbers are the practice location numbers on the NPI record. They are self-reported, CMS does not verify them, and 5 of these records have not been updated since before 2020. An NPI does not mean the practice is licensed: that is a matter for the North Carolina licensing boards.

Nearby metro areas

Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC (8)Anderson Creek, NC (16)Fayetteville, NC (38)Raleigh-Cary, NC (243)Durham-Chapel Hill, NC (54)Burlington, NC (17)All North Carolina practices

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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.

Site updated 2026-10-25