Lowcountry Eye Care, Summerville: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1700319282
- Legal business name
- Lowcountry Eye Care of Cane Bay, LLC
- Registered trading name
- Lowcountry Eye Care
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 1718 State Rd # 176, Suite 3 (8D)
Summerville, SC 29486-2801 - Phone on the record
- (843) 797-1264
- NPI issued
- April 11, 2017
- Record last updated by the practice
- July 21, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Charleston-North Charleston, SC
- County
- Berkeley County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Lowcountry Eye Care of Cane Bay, LLC and registered Lowcountry Eye Care 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 July 2022. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 16 of 137 records were updated in 2024 or later and 84 predate 2020.
For local context: Summerville holds 23 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 21 of them optometry and 2 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 29486. 14 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Tidewater Eyecare, LLC in Summerville, 2.4 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
107 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 137, 22 of them elsewhere in Summerville. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tidewater Eyecare, LLC | Summerville | Optometry | 2.4 mi | (843) 261-2020 |
| Palmetto Eye Institute | Summerville | Ophthalmology | 3.4 mi | (843) 259-2002 |
| Myeyedr Optometry of South Carolina, LLC | Summerville | Optometry | 3.5 mi | (843) 502-7705 |
| Daniel D Coyle OD | Summerville | Optometry | 4.3 mi | (843) 821-0261 |
| Ideal-Eyes Eye Care LLC | Summerville | Optometry | 4.8 mi | (843) 821-0961 |
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 Lowcountry 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 137 practices on the Charleston-North Charleston page give you the full local field to call around.