Novel Eye Care, Nashville: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1477301554
- Legal business name
- Novel Eye Care, PLLC
- Registered trading name
- Novel Eye Care
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 1800 State St
Nashville, TN 37203-2206 - Phone on the record
- (615) 709-8867
- NPI issued
- May 13, 2024
- Record last updated by the practice
- May 13, 2024
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- County
- Davidson County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Novel Eye Care, PLLC and registered Novel Eye Care as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. The entry was refreshed in May 2024, putting it among the 51 of 280 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Nashville holds 79 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 50 of them optometry and 29 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 37203. 73 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is M. Terry Burkhalter, MD, PC in Nashville, 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 Tennessee boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Also registered at this address
2 other organizations hold an NPI at the same street address. Shared suites and multi-specialty buildings are common, and it is worth knowing which entity you are actually booking with.
| Organization | Registered as | Record updated |
|---|---|---|
| M. Terry Burkhalter, MD, PC | Ophthalmology | January 2008 |
| Ophthalmology Management Group, LLC | Ophthalmology | May 2011 |
Nearest registered practices
202 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin metro itself there are 280, 78 of them elsewhere in Nashville. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. Terry Burkhalter, MD, PC | Nashville | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (615) 327-4015 |
| Ophthalmology Management Group, LLC | Nashville | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (615) 327-4015 |
| Wesley & Klippenstein, PC | Nashville | Oculoplastic and reconstructive surgery | 0.1 mi | (615) 329-3624 |
| Pilkinton Eye Center | Nashville | Ophthalmology | 0.2 mi | (615) 329-7890 |
| Vision for Life | Nashville | Ophthalmology | 0.2 mi | (615) 329-9575 |
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 Novel Eye Care, 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 Novel Eye Care 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 280 practices on the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin page give you the full local field to call around.