Howerton Eye Clinic, PLLC, 5625 Eiger Rd Ste 100, Austin: NPI Registry Record
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1689086365
- Legal business name
- Howerton Eye Clinic, PLLC
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology (207W00000X)
- Practice location
- 5625 Eiger Rd Ste 100
Austin, TX 78735-8978 - Phone on the record
- (512) 443-9715
- NPI issued
- May 29, 2014
- Record last updated by the practice
- August 10, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX
- County
- Travis County
- Parent organization
- Howerton Eye Clinic, PLLC
- Organization subpart
- Yes, this location bills as a subpart of a larger organization
- Locations under this name
- 3 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
CMS records this location as a subpart of Howerton Eye Clinic, PLLC, meaning it bills under its own NPI but belongs to a larger organization. 3 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 August 2023. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 81 of 372 records were updated in 2024 or later and 184 predate 2020.
For local context: Austin holds 190 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 149 of them optometry and 41 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 78735. 113 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Med Southwest, PLLC in Austin, 0.9 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 Texas boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
317 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos metro itself there are 372, 189 of them elsewhere in Austin. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Med Southwest, PLLC | Austin | Optometry | 0.9 mi | (512) 328-7300 |
| Oak Hill Eye Care | Austin | Optometry | 1.1 mi | (512) 288-0444 |
| Sonja M Franklin OD PA | Austin | Optometry | 1.1 mi | (512) 288-0444 |
| Tso: Oak Hill | Austin | Optometry | 1.2 mi | (512) 288-6555 |
| Live Oak Vision, PLLC | Austin | Optometry | 1.3 mi | (512) 892-1864 |
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 ophthalmology practice like this
The NPI registry holds no prices, so nothing here is a quote from Howerton Eye Clinic, PLLC. Based on this site's own price research, an ophthalmology practice typically charges $150 to $300 or more for an exam without insurance, against a national average of about $136 and roughly $25 once a vision plan pays its share.
Ophthalmology visits are usually medical rather than routine, which changes who pays: medical insurance and Medicare Part B cover a medically necessary exam, while a routine refraction for glasses is normally not covered. Ask whether the visit will be billed as medical or routine before you book, and compare with the 295 optometry practices on the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos page if you only need a prescription.