Eyecare Center, Winston Salem: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1861130254
- Legal business name
- Eyecarecenter OD PA
- Registered trading name
- Eyecare Center
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 3443 Burke Mill Road, Ste C1B
Winston Salem, NC 27101 - Phone on the record
- (336) 331-0231
- NPI issued
- May 25, 2022
- Record last updated by the practice
- September 29, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Winston-Salem, NC
- County
- Forsyth County
- Locations under this name
- 42 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Eyecarecenter OD PA 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. 42 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 12 of 100 records were updated in 2024 or later and 57 predate 2020.
For local context: Winston Salem holds 53 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 36 of them optometry and 17 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 27101. 49 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Private Diagnostic Clinic, PLLC in Winston Salem, 0.3 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
122 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Winston-Salem metro itself there are 100, 52 of them elsewhere in Winston Salem. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Private Diagnostic Clinic, PLLC | Winston Salem | Ophthalmology | 0.3 mi | (336) 768-3240 |
| Temas Eye Center, PC | Winston Salem | Ophthalmology | 0.4 mi | (336) 659-8180 |
| Temas-Rini Eye Associates, PA | Winston Salem | Ophthalmology | 0.4 mi | (336) 659-8180 |
| Carolina Eye Associates PA | Winston Salem | Ophthalmology | 0.4 mi | (336) 659-8180 |
| Ascend Eye Center, LLC | Winston Salem | Ophthalmology | 0.4 mi | (336) 997-4599 |
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. Based on this site's own price research, an independent optometry practice typically charges $120 to $200 for an exam without insurance, against a national average of about $136 and roughly $25 once a vision plan pays its share.
Ask two things when you call: whether the quoted fee includes the refraction, and what a contact lens fitting adds if you wear lenses, since that takes a visit to $150 to $370. A comprehensive exam is $100 to $250. If price is the deciding factor, the 100 practices on the Winston-Salem page give you the full local field to call around.