Vital Eyes LLC, Chapin: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1528848405
- Legal business name
- Vital Eyes LLC
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Other registered specialties
- Optometrist, Corneal and Contact Management; Optometrist, Pediatrics
- Practice location
- 223 Columbia Ave, Ste B
Chapin, SC 29036 - Phone on the record
- (803) 930-0036
- NPI issued
- September 29, 2023
- Record last updated by the practice
- September 17, 2024
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Columbia, SC
- County
- Lexington County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
Beyond the primary code the record carries Optometrist, Corneal and Contact Management and Optometrist, Pediatrics, which is the registry's own signal that the practice covers more than routine work. The entry was refreshed in September 2024, putting it among the 19 of 103 Columbia records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Chapin holds 3 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 3 of them optometry and 0 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 29036. 2 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Eye Care Center in Chapin, 0.6 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
80 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Columbia metro itself there are 103, 2 of them elsewhere in Chapin. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eye Care Center | Chapin | Optometry | 0.6 mi | (803) 345-3170 |
| Eye Care Associates of SC LLC | Chapin | Optometry | 0.6 mi | (843) 851-1037 |
| Irmo Primary Eyecare | Irmo | Optometry | 7.5 mi | (803) 740-2635 |
| Eyes on the Lake LLC | Columbia | Optometry | 8.4 mi | (803) 575-0723 |
| Sansbury Vision Services LLC | Irmo | Optometry | 10.6 mi | (803) 781-2123 |
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 Vital Eyes LLC. 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 103 practices on the Columbia page give you the full local field to call around.