Hixson Eyecare, Hixson: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1275702045
- Legal business name
- Clayton B Rhodes
- Registered trading name
- Hixson Eyecare
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Non eye care codes on the record
- 1 additional taxonomy code outside optometry and ophthalmology
- Practice location
- 5433 Hixson Pike
Hixson, TN 37343-3238 - Phone on the record
- (423) 843-2020
- NPI issued
- February 26, 2008
- Record last updated by the practice
- February 4, 2025
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Chattanooga, TN-GA
- County
- Hamilton County
- Parent organization
- Clayton B Rhodes OD PC
- Organization subpart
- Yes, this location bills as a subpart of a larger organization
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Clayton B Rhodes and registered Hixson Eyecare as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. CMS records this location as a subpart of Clayton B Rhodes OD PC, meaning it bills under its own NPI but belongs to a larger organization. The entry was refreshed in February 2025, putting it among the 11 of 64 Chattanooga records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Hixson holds 13 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 11 of them optometry and 2 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 37343. 4 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Southeastern Retina Associates, P.C. in Hixson, 0.8 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 Tennessee boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
84 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Chattanooga metro itself there are 64, 12 of them elsewhere in Hixson. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southeastern Retina Associates, P.C. | Hixson | Retina | 0.8 mi | (423) 756-1002 |
| Chattanooga Vision Center, PLC | Chattanooga | Ophthalmology | 0.9 mi | (423) 870-4900 |
| Southeast Vision Rehabilitation, PLLC | Hixson | Low vision rehabilitation | 0.9 mi | (423) 321-8233 |
| Amplify Health PC | Hixson | Optometry | 0.9 mi | (423) 321-8233 |
| Friedrich Eye Associates PLLC | Chattanooga | Ophthalmology | 0.9 mi | (423) 702-2020 |
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 Hixson Eyecare. 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 64 practices on the Chattanooga page give you the full local field to call around.