Jewell Vision Care, Inc., Lancaster: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1497973978
- Legal business name
- Jewell Vision Care, Inc.
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 689 Lancaster Byp E
Lancaster, SC 29720-4727 - Phone on the record
- (803) 283-2020
- NPI issued
- April 23, 2007
- Record last updated by the practice
- January 12, 2024
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC
- County
- Lancaster County
- Parent organization
- Jewell Vision Care, Inc.
- Organization subpart
- Yes, this location bills as a subpart of a larger organization
- Duplicate registrations at this address
- 1 additional NPI for the same name and address, folded into this record
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
CMS records this location as a subpart of Jewell Vision Care, Inc., meaning it bills under its own NPI but belongs to a larger organization. The entry was refreshed in January 2024, putting it among the 9 of 50 Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Lancaster holds 8 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 4 of them optometry and 4 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 29720. 2 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Dukes Eyecare LLC in Lancaster, 0.7 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
76 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia metro itself there are 50, 7 of them elsewhere in Lancaster. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dukes Eyecare LLC | Lancaster | Corneal and contact lens management | 0.7 mi | (803) 285-8433 |
| Story Eye, LLC | Lancaster | Ophthalmology | 1.2 mi | (803) 285-7400 |
| Lancaster Eye Center | Lancaster | Ophthalmology | 1.2 mi | (803) 285-3333 |
| The Eye and Laser Center | Lancaster | Ophthalmology | 1.5 mi | (803) 285-4333 |
| Wallace Vision Center | Lancaster | Optometry | 1.5 mi | (803) 286-4836 |
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 Jewell Vision Care, 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 Jewell Vision Care, 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 50 practices on the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia page give you the full local field to call around.