Mills Vision Care, Inc, Myrtle Beach: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1972717940
- Legal business name
- Inlet Optometric Eycare, Inc.
- Registered trading name
- Mills Vision Care, Inc
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 3013 Newcastle Loop
Myrtle Beach, SC 29588-4502 - Phone on the record
- (843) 215-3000
- NPI issued
- May 9, 2007
- Record last updated by the practice
- June 12, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- County
- Horry County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Inlet Optometric Eycare, Inc. and registered Mills Vision Care, Inc 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 June 2023. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 8 of 45 records were updated in 2024 or later and 28 predate 2020.
For local context: Myrtle Beach holds 27 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 20 of them optometry and 7 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 29588. 8 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Stuart P. Creson Inc in Surfside Beach, 1.0 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 South Carolina boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
55 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach metro itself there are 45, 26 of them elsewhere in Myrtle Beach. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stuart P. Creson Inc | Surfside Beach | Optometry | 1.0 mi | (843) 215-0101 |
| Coastal Vision Center | Surfside Beach | Optometry | 1.4 mi | (843) 650-2400 |
| The Vision Centers | Surfside Beach | Optometry | 1.5 mi | (843) 238-2020 |
| Benjamin J Bittner OD Inc | Myrtle Beach | Optometry | 2.4 mi | (843) 443-6000 |
| Socastee Eye Clinic Inc | Myrtle Beach | Optometry | 3.0 mi | (843) 293-8101 |
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 Mills Vision Care, Inc. 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 45 practices on the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach page give you the full local field to call around.