Drs Ethridge & Harding, Optometrist PLLC, Brownwood: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1477254142
- Legal business name
- Drs Ethridge & Harding, Optometrist PLLC
- Registered trading name
- Drs Ethridge & Harding, Optometrist PLLC
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 1200 Austin Ave
Brownwood, TX 76801-3311 - Phone on the record
- (325) 643-5511
- NPI issued
- March 10, 2023
- Record last updated by the practice
- January 28, 2024
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Brownwood, TX
- County
- Brown County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The entry was refreshed in January 2024, putting it among the 3 of 4 Brownwood records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Brownwood holds 3 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 2 of them optometry and 1 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 76801. 2 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Commerce Square Optical in Brownwood, 1.2 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
3 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Brownwood metro itself there are 4, 2 of them elsewhere in Brownwood. The closest 4 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commerce Square Optical | Brownwood | Optometry | 1.2 mi | (325) 643-9336 |
| Early Vision | Early | Optometry | 2.0 mi | (325) 643-1826 |
| Stephen P. Kelly, M.D., P.A. | Brownwood | Ophthalmology | 2.5 mi | (325) 643-3561 |
| Coleman Vision Center | Coleman | Optometry | 27.2 mi | (325) 212-3870 |
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 Drs Ethridge & Harding, Optometrist PLLC, and independent optometry practices do not publish fee schedules. Customers report paying $120 to $200 at this kind of practice without insurance, which is a reported band rather than a published price. The nearest published figure is $95, the median starting fee across the 1,280 US retail optical stores that print one (30 September 2026), and Medicare pays $149.64 for a comprehensive new-patient exam (CPT 92004). Ask Drs Ethridge & Harding, Optometrist PLLC for its self-pay price.
Ask two things when you call: whether the quoted fee includes the refraction, and what a contact lens fitting adds if you wear lenses (the median published contact-lens fee is $129). A comprehensive exam is $80 to $120 at the middle half of stores that print a price. If price is the deciding factor, the 4 practices on the Brownwood page give you the full local field to call around.