Vision Care Associates, Pittsburgh: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1376221036
- Legal business name
- Aeg Pennsylvania Professional Inc
- Registered trading name
- Vision Care Associates
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 810 Clairton Blvd
Pittsburgh, PA 15236-5505 - Phone on the record
- (412) 653-3000
- NPI issued
- July 11, 2023
- Record last updated by the practice
- July 11, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Pittsburgh, PA
- County
- Allegheny County
- Locations under this name
- 35 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Aeg Pennsylvania Professional Inc and registered Vision Care Associates as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. 35 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 July 2023. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 38 of 394 records were updated in 2024 or later and 249 predate 2020.
For local context: Pittsburgh holds 110 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 81 of them optometry and 29 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 15236. 102 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Vision Care PC in Pittsburgh, 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 Pennsylvania boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
288 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, 109 of them elsewhere in Pittsburgh. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vision Care PC | Pittsburgh | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (412) 653-3000 |
| H M Tanning MD & Associates | Jefferson Hills | Ophthalmology | 0.6 mi | (412) 466-6800 |
| Bittel Vision Center -Jefferson | Jefferson Hills | Optometry | 0.6 mi | (412) 884-8007 |
| James W. Mahramas, O.D. | West Mifflin | Optometry | 1.0 mi | (412) 653-2211 |
| Cianflone Optometry, LLC | Pittsburgh | Optometry | 1.5 mi | (412) 653-0277 |
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 Vision Care Associates. 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.