The Optical Collective, Austin: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1164371639
- Legal business name
- Love Austin Eye Care PLLC
- Registered trading name
- The Optical Collective
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 2712 Bee Caves Rd Ste 118
Austin, TX 78746-5683 - Phone on the record
- (512) 327-3605
- NPI issued
- January 27, 2026
- Record last updated by the practice
- January 27, 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
- 2 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Love Austin Eye Care PLLC and registered The Optical Collective as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. 2 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 January 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 78746. 184 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Texas State Optical in Austin, 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 Texas boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Also registered at this address
1 other organization holds 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Love Austin Eye Care, PLLC | Optometry | December 2025 |
Nearest registered practices
325 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas State Optical | Austin | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (512) 327-3605 |
| Love Austin Eye Care, PLLC | Austin | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (512) 327-3605 |
| Austin Eye Clinic Association | Austin | Ophthalmology | 0.0 mi | (512) 250-2020 |
| Dell Laser Consultants, P.A. | Austin | Ophthalmology | 0.4 mi | (512) 347-0255 |
| Treadwell & Treadwell, OD | Austin | Optometry | 0.5 mi | (512) 327-7050 |
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 The Optical Collective. Based on this site's own price research, an independent optometry practice typically charges $120 to $200 for an exam without insurance, against a national average of about $136 and roughly $25 once a vision plan pays its share.
Ask two things when you call: whether the quoted fee includes the refraction, and what a contact lens fitting adds if you wear lenses, since that takes a visit to $150 to $370. A comprehensive exam is $100 to $250. If price is the deciding factor, the 372 practices on the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos page give you the full local field to call around.