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Brownsville-Harlingen - CMS NPI registry, October 2026

Eye Doctors in Brownsville-Harlingen, TX: 20 Registered Practices

20 eye care organizations on the Texas side of the Brownsville-Harlingen metropolitan statistical area area hold a current NPI in the October 2026 CMS file: 14 optometry practices (70 percent) and 6 ophthalmology practices. They spread across 3 cities, led by Brownsville (14), Harlingen (5) and Los Fresnos (1). The metro covers Cameron County. 3 records were refreshed by the practice in 2024 or later and 10 have not been updated since before 2020.

Booking here: 70 percent of Brownsville-Harlingen records are optometry practices, which is the side of the market that does routine exams at $120 to $200 without insurance. The 6 ophthalmology practices are physician offices and price accordingly, at $150 to $300 or more. Eyear One Hour Optical run multiple offices in this metro, so one price check usually covers all of them.

Registered practices
20
2 with a profile page
Optometry
14
70% of this metro
Ophthalmology
6
1 register a subspecialty
Cities covered
3
1 county
Address matched
70%
rest placed at a ZIP code centroid

What an eye exam costs around Brownsville-Harlingen

No prices exist in the NPI registry, so treat the list below as a call sheet rather than a quote sheet. The nearest published national figure is $95, the median starting exam fee across the 1,280 US retail optical stores that print one on their own store pages (30 September 2026), and Medicare pays $149.64 for a comprehensive new-patient exam (CPT 92004).

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 $80 to $120 at the middle half of stores that print a price, and a contact lens fitting is priced separately, at a $129 median published fee.

Where the practices are

CityPracticesOptometryOphthalmology
Brownsville1495
Harlingen541
Los Fresnos110

City is the free-text value the practice entered in the registry. Every city in this table sits inside the Brownsville-Harlingen metropolitan statistical area area as defined by the Census 2023 delineation.

Every registered practice in Brownsville-Harlingen

Ordered by city, then by name. Names in blue have a profile page with the full registry record and the nearest alternatives.

PracticeCityRegistered asPhone on recordRecord updated
Alexander P. Sudarshan MD PABrownsvilleOphthalmology(956) 541-4828May 2021
Alexander Pradip SudarshanBrownsvilleOphthalmology(956) 541-4828July 2011
Barrera Eye Center PLLCBrownsvilleOptometry(956) 554-3030May 2013
Brownsville Eye CenterBrownsvilleOptometry(956) 214-5018February 2020
Brownsville Eye Center
Registered as Michael A Foster OD PA Inc
BrownsvilleOptometry(956) 214-5018June 2018
Eyear One Hour Optical
Registered as Amedco Texas LLC
BrownsvilleOptometry(956) 203-0825March 2014
Eyear-Brownsville
Registered as Amedco Texas LLC
BrownsvilleOptometry(956) 544-2607October 2012
Maria del Carmen Z CamposBrownsvilleOptometry(956) 459-7325May 2022
Optic Trend
Registered as Mqz, Inc
BrownsvilleOptometry(956) 793-2160May 2022
Rgv Eye Institute LLCBrownsvilleOptometry(956) 338-1752July 2021
South Texas Eye Centers PABrownsvilleOphthalmology(956) 541-1013November 2011
Texan Coast Eye Care & SurgeryBrownsvilleOphthalmology(956) 542-3930September 2023
Valley Cataract & Retina Clinic
Registered as Valley Cataract Institute, P.A.
BrownsvilleOphthalmology(956) 542-6945February 2014
Wolf & Crane Investments PLLCBrownsvilleOptometry(956) 655-8094March 2026
Eyear-Harlengen
Registered as Amedco Texas LLC
HarlingenOptometry(956) 969-4750October 2012
Harlingen Eye ClinicHarlingenOptometry(956) 425-8558August 2022
Ophthalmic Consultants of Texas P.A.HarlingenOptometry(956) 423-2100June 2026
Valley Laser Center PAHarlingenRetina(956) 425-3937July 2025
Valley Vision Clinic
Registered as Dr Phillip R Fruge PC
HarlingenOptometry(956) 423-4333June 2008
Los Fresnos Eye Clinic & Optical Inc.Los FresnosOptometry(956) 233-5252February 2008

Phone numbers are the practice location numbers on the NPI record. They are self-reported, CMS does not verify them, and 10 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.

Groups with more than one office here

Practice groupOffices in this metro
Eyear One Hour Optical3

Nearby metro areas

McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX (57)Corpus Christi, TX (45)Alice, TX (5)Laredo, TX (24)Beeville, TX (3)Victoria, TX (17)All Texas practices

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Source and provenance. CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), NPI data dissemination file, August 2026 (October 2026, published October 2026 file). CMS NPI downloadable files. Licence: US federal public data, FOIA-disclosable, no charge; CMS deactivated-NPI display guidance honoured. NPI registry records from the CMS NPPES monthly file. An NPI is a billing identifier, not a licence: CMS does not verify that the holder is licensed or credentialed. Registry contact details are self-reported and are often years out of date. This directory lists organizations only. Individual practitioner records are never published here.

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