My Eyelab, Chattanooga: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1366143240
- Legal business name
- Chattanooga Optical, LLC
- Registered trading name
- My Eyelab
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Non eye care codes on the record
- 1 additional taxonomy code outside optometry and ophthalmology
- Practice location
- 7720 Legends Way
Chattanooga, TN 37421-7101 - Phone on the record
- (956) 335-6476
- NPI issued
- March 16, 2023
- Record last updated by the practice
- March 16, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Chattanooga, TN-GA
- County
- Hamilton County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Chattanooga Optical, LLC and registered My Eyelab 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 March 2023. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 11 of 64 records were updated in 2024 or later and 38 predate 2020.
For local context: Chattanooga holds 37 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 23 of them optometry and 14 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 37421. 32 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Chattanooga Retina PLLC in Chattanooga, 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 Tennessee boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
87 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, 36 of them elsewhere in Chattanooga. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chattanooga Retina PLLC | Chattanooga | Ophthalmology | 0.7 mi | (423) 664-3366 |
| Hamilton Village Eye Care | Chattanooga | Optometry | 0.7 mi | (423) 899-9125 |
| Professional Eye Care | Chattanooga | Optometry | 0.7 mi | (423) 269-1062 |
| Mark R. Kapperman, OD PC | Chattanooga | Optometry | 0.8 mi | (423) 892-2020 |
| Southeast Eye Specialists PLLC | Chattanooga | Ophthalmology | 0.9 mi | (423) 508-7337 |
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 My Eyelab. 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.