Chicora Eye Care, Butler: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1710333406
- Legal business name
- Butler Eye Care, LLC
- Registered trading name
- Chicora Eye Care
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Other registered specialties
- Ophthalmology
- Non eye care codes on the record
- 1 additional taxonomy code outside optometry and ophthalmology
- Practice location
- 391 Evans City Rd
Butler, PA 16001 - Phone on the record
- (724) 283-8144
- NPI issued
- May 11, 2016
- Record last updated by the practice
- June 18, 2026
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Pittsburgh, PA
- County
- Butler County
- Locations under this name
- 2 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Butler Eye Care, LLC and registered Chicora Eye Care as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. Beyond the primary code the record carries Ophthalmology, 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 June 2026, putting it among the 38 of 394 Pittsburgh records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Butler holds 15 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 14 of them optometry and 1 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 16001. 10 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Stirling Village Eye Care in Butler, 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 Pennsylvania boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
128 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Pittsburgh metro itself there are 394, 14 of them elsewhere in Butler. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stirling Village Eye Care | Butler | Optometry | 0.2 mi | (724) 285-2618 |
| Butler Eye Care, Inc | Butler | Optometry | 0.7 mi | (724) 283-8144 |
| Balouris Eye Cener, PC | Butler | Ophthalmology | 0.8 mi | (724) 482-0090 |
| Allison Eye Care LLC | Butler | Optometry | 0.9 mi | (724) 282-4054 |
| John C. Molnar, O.D. | Butler | Optometry | 0.9 mi | (724) 282-4054 |
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 Chicora Eye Care. 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 394 practices on the Pittsburgh page give you the full local field to call around.