Eye Doctors in Athens, TX: 3 Registered Practices
Booking here: 67 percent of Athens records are optometry practices, which is the side of the market that does routine exams at $120 to $200 without insurance. The 1 ophthalmology practices are physician offices and price accordingly, at $150 to $300 or more.
What an eye exam costs around Athens
No prices exist in the NPI registry, so treat the list below as a call sheet rather than a quote sheet. Nationally this site puts an eye exam at about $136 without insurance and around $25 with a vision plan.
No national retail optical brand is registered under its own name in this metro, so expect the independent optometry band of $120 to $200 rather than the $50 to $110 retail band. A comprehensive exam is $100 to $250, and adding a contact lens fitting takes the visit to $150 to $370.
Where the practices are
| City | Practices | Optometry | Ophthalmology |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gun Barrel City | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Athens | 1 | 1 | 0 |
City is the free-text value the practice entered in the registry. Every city in this table sits inside the Athens micropolitan statistical area area as defined by the Census 2023 delineation.
Every registered practice in Athens
Ordered by city, then by name. Names in blue have a profile page with the full registry record and the nearest alternatives.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Phone on record | Record updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nettune Eye Associates | Athens | Optometry | (903) 675-5300 | August 2020 |
| Better Optics Inc | Gun Barrel City | Optometry | (903) 880-4393 | June 2009 |
| Heaton Eye Associates Registered as Charles L. Heaton, MD, PA | Gun Barrel City | Ophthalmology | (903) 526-0444 | July 2025 |
Phone numbers are the practice location numbers on the NPI record. They are self-reported, CMS does not verify them, and 1 of these records have not been updated since before 2020. An NPI does not mean the practice is licensed: that is a matter for the Texas licensing boards.