Thrive Eye & Optical, Dallas: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1447872270
- Legal business name
- James M Chin PLLC
- Registered trading name
- Thrive Eye & Optical
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 8041 Walnut Hill Ln # 817
Dallas, TX 75231-4332 - Phone on the record
- (214) 730-5502
- NPI issued
- May 14, 2020
- Record last updated by the practice
- June 21, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
- County
- Dallas County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name James M Chin PLLC and registered Thrive Eye & Optical as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. The entry was last refreshed in June 2022. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 235 of 1,160 records were updated in 2024 or later and 629 predate 2020.
For local context: Dallas holds 178 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 127 of them optometry and 51 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 75231. 146 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Matthew Lippas MD PA in Dallas, 0.2 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
824 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro itself there are 1,160, 177 of them elsewhere in Dallas. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matthew Lippas MD PA | Dallas | Ophthalmology | 0.2 mi | (214) 369-3433 |
| Texas Retina Associates | Dallas | Ophthalmology | 0.2 mi | (214) 692-6941 |
| Glaucoma Center of Texas | Dallas | Ophthalmology | 0.2 mi | (214) 739-3900 |
| Dallas Services | Dallas | Optometry | 0.2 mi | (214) 828-9900 |
| Vista Ophthalmology Associates, PA | Dallas | Ophthalmology | 0.3 mi | (214) 369-5343 |
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 Thrive Eye & Optical, 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 Thrive Eye & Optical 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 1,160 practices on the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington page give you the full local field to call around.