Vrf Eye Specialty Group, PLC, Germantown: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1811510423
- Legal business name
- Vrf Eye Specialty Group, PLC
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Other registered specialties
- Ophthalmology
- Practice location
- 9155 Poplar Ave Ste 12
Germantown, TN 38138-7909 - Phone on the record
- (901) 755-7887
- NPI issued
- May 19, 2020
- Record last updated by the practice
- May 3, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Memphis, TN-MS-AR
- County
- Shelby County
- Locations under this name
- 6 registered nationally
- 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. 6 locations nationally are registered under the same name, so pricing and policies are likely to be set at group level rather than at this office. The entry was last refreshed in May 2022. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 21 of 126 records were updated in 2024 or later and 73 predate 2020.
For local context: Germantown holds 16 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 15 of them optometry and 1 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 38138. 12 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Eyecare East, PLLC in Germantown, 0.3 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
141 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Memphis metro itself there are 126, 15 of them elsewhere in Germantown. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eyecare East, PLLC | Germantown | Optometry | 0.3 mi | (901) 757-2020 |
| Eye Society | Germantown | Optometry | 0.3 mi | (901) 757-2020 |
| Invision Eyecare, PLLC | Germantown | Optometry | 0.4 mi | (901) 310-4044 |
| Harlan Eye Care | Collierville | Optometry | 1.7 mi | (901) 654-5654 |
| Dr Ted S Cooper Optometry LLC | Collierville | Optometry | 1.9 mi | (901) 850-7900 |
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 Vrf Eye Specialty Group, PLC, 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 Vrf Eye Specialty Group, PLC 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 126 practices on the Memphis page give you the full local field to call around.