Texan Eye, PA, 5717 Balcones Dr, Austin: NPI Registry Record
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1205813961
- Legal business name
- Texan Eye, PA
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology (207W00000X)
- Other registered specialties
- Optometrist
- Non eye care codes on the record
- 1 additional taxonomy code outside optometry and ophthalmology
- Practice location
- 5717 Balcones Dr
Austin, TX 78731 - Phone on the record
- (512) 327-7000
- NPI issued
- December 23, 2005
- Record last updated by the practice
- May 19, 2026
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX
- County
- Travis County
- Locations under this name
- 4 registered nationally
- Duplicate registrations at this address
- 1 additional NPI for the same name and address, folded into this record
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
Beyond the primary code the record carries Optometrist, which is the registry's own signal that the practice covers more than routine work. 4 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 refreshed in May 2026, putting it among the 81 of 372 Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Austin holds 190 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 149 of them optometry and 41 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 78731. 1 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Stars in Your Eyes Vision Training Center LLC in Austin, 0.1 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
347 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stars in Your Eyes Vision Training Center LLC | Austin | Vision therapy | 0.1 mi | (512) 419-1212 |
| Dry Eye Associates, PLLC | Austin | Optometry | 0.1 mi | (512) 494-4141 |
| Generalhealthgroup of Texas | Austin | Optometry | 0.1 mi | (646) 907-6299 |
| Eye LASIK Austin | Austin | Ophthalmology | 0.6 mi | (512) 346-3937 |
| Jack Pierce,md PLLC | Austin | Ophthalmology | 0.9 mi | (512) 415-1649 |
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 Texan Eye, PA. 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.