Vision Concepts, Springfield: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1225228166
- Legal business name
- Steven G Schoemer PC
- Registered trading name
- Vision Concepts
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 3563 Tom Austin Hwy
Springfield, TN 37172-3939 - Phone on the record
- (615) 384-5225
- NPI issued
- July 26, 2007
- Record last updated by the practice
- May 17, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- County
- Robertson County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Steven G Schoemer PC and registered Vision Concepts 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 May 2023. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 51 of 280 records were updated in 2024 or later and 153 predate 2020.
For local context: Springfield holds 4 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 4 of them optometry and 0 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 37172. No other practice in the city took its NPI earlier than this one, which makes it the longest-registered address here. The closest is America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses in Springfield, 0.2 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
86 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, 3 of them elsewhere in Springfield. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses | Springfield | Optometry | 0.2 mi | (615) 985-9324 |
| Drs. Reed & Wilkerson | Springfield | Optometry | 1.3 mi | (615) 384-8435 |
| Springfield Primary Eye Care | Springfield | Optometry | 1.3 mi | (615) 384-8435 |
| Areephanthu Eye Care PLLC | Pleasant View | Ophthalmology | 10.4 mi | (615) 261-9265 |
| Joseph D. Weatherford, PLC | Pleasant View | Optometry | 10.4 mi | (931) 552-7474 |
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 Vision Concepts, 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 Vision Concepts 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.