Dr. D. Michael Dopkiss & Assoc. Inc., Columbus: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1548376346
- Legal business name
- Dr. D. Michael Dopkiss & Assoc. Inc.
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist, Sports Vision (152WS0006X)
- Other registered specialties
- Optometrist, Corneal and Contact Management
- Practice location
- 6500 Sawmill Rd
Columbus, OH 43235-4942 - Phone on the record
- (614) 798-0266
- NPI issued
- August 22, 2006
- Record last updated by the practice
- September 11, 2025
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Columbus, OH
- County
- Franklin County
- Locations under this name
- 2 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
Beyond the primary code the record carries Optometrist, Corneal and Contact Management, which is the registry's own signal that the practice covers more than routine work. 2 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 refreshed in September 2025, putting it among the 45 of 285 Columbus records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Columbus holds 103 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 79 of them optometry and 24 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 43235. 19 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Sawmill Eye Associates, Inc. in Columbus, 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 Ohio boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Also registered at this address
1 other organization holds 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sawmill Eye Associates, Inc. | Optometry | July 2008 |
Nearest registered practices
237 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Columbus metro itself there are 285, 102 of them elsewhere in Columbus. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sawmill Eye Associates, Inc. | Columbus | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (614) 798-0260 |
| Dublin Perceptive Eye Care LLC | Dublin | Corneal and contact lens management | 0.1 mi | not listed |
| Dr David Gill & Associates, LLC | Dublin | Optometry | 0.4 mi | (614) 889-7755 |
| 4247BIFOCAL LLC | Dublin | Optometry | 0.4 mi | (614) 889-7755 |
| America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses | Dublin | Optometry | 0.5 mi | (614) 602-3423 |
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 Dr. D. Michael Dopkiss & Assoc. Inc., 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 Dr. D. Michael Dopkiss & Assoc. Inc. 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 285 practices on the Columbus page give you the full local field to call around.