Brighter Outlook Vision, North Charleston: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1912611971
- Legal business name
- Park Circle Vision LLC
- Registered trading name
- Brighter Outlook Vision
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist, Vision Therapy (152WV0400X)
- Practice location
- 1816 Success St Ste 101
North Charleston, SC 29405-7851 - Phone on the record
- (843) 203-0200
- NPI issued
- January 12, 2023
- Record last updated by the practice
- January 12, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Charleston-North Charleston, SC
- County
- Charleston County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Park Circle Vision LLC and registered Brighter Outlook Vision as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. The entry was last refreshed in January 2023. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 18 of 139 records were updated in 2024 or later and 84 predate 2020.
For local context: North Charleston holds 18 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 17 of them optometry and 1 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 29405. 13 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Island Eye Care in Daniel Island, 3.4 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 South Carolina boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
137 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Charleston-North Charleston metro itself there are 139, 17 of them elsewhere in North Charleston. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Island Eye Care | Daniel Island | Optometry | 3.4 mi | (843) 471-2733 |
| Eye Care Specialties Group - Daniel Island | Daniel Island | Optometry | 3.4 mi | (843) 471-2733 |
| Coastal Eye Care of Daniel Island | Charleston | Optometry | 3.4 mi | (843) 471-2020 |
| Lesslie Vision Care | North Charleston | Optometry | 3.5 mi | (843) 747-7663 |
| Michael D. Schall, OD, PA | N Charleston | Optometry | 3.6 mi | (843) 554-7554 |
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 Brighter Outlook Vision, 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 Brighter Outlook Vision 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 139 practices on the Charleston-North Charleston page give you the full local field to call around.