Vaught Eye Associates, PA, Conway: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1720187172
- Legal business name
- Vaught Eye Associates, PA
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Other registered specialties
- Ophthalmology
- Non eye care codes on the record
- 1 additional taxonomy code outside optometry and ophthalmology
- Practice location
- 1406 Main St
Conway, SC 29526-3567 - Phone on the record
- (843) 488-2020
- NPI issued
- September 22, 2006
- Record last updated by the practice
- November 29, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- County
- Horry County
- Parent organization
- Vaught Eye Associates, PA
- 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
Beyond the primary code the record carries Ophthalmology, which is the registry's own signal that the practice covers more than routine work. CMS records this location as a subpart of Vaught Eye Associates, PA, meaning it bills under its own NPI but belongs to a larger organization. The entry was last refreshed in November 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: Conway holds 4 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 3 of them optometry and 1 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 29526. No other practice in the city took its NPI earlier than this one, which makes it the longest-registered address here. The closest is South Carolina Retina Institute LLC in Conway, 0.0 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
51 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, 3 of them elsewhere in Conway. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina Retina Institute LLC | Conway | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (205) 907-3912 |
| Atlantic Eye Associates | Conway | Optometry | 4.7 mi | (843) 347-7236 |
| For Your Eyes Site | Conway | Optometry | 4.8 mi | (304) 206-8354 |
| Carolina Forest Family Eyecare, P.A. | Myrtle Beach | Optometry | 7.8 mi | (843) 903-6262 |
| Seaside Eye Associates P A | Myrtle Beach | Optometry | 7.8 mi | (843) 903-0949 |
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 Vaught Eye Associates, PA, 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 Vaught Eye Associates, PA 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 45 practices on the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach page give you the full local field to call around.