Dry Eye Center, Sugar Land: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1437977071
- Legal business name
- Dry Eye Center
- Registered trading name
- Dry Eye Center
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 13440 University Blvd Ste 130
Sugar Land, TX 77479-4907 - Phone on the record
- (281) 800-9050
- NPI issued
- October 2, 2024
- Record last updated by the practice
- November 26, 2024
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX
- County
- Fort Bend County
- Locations under this name
- 2 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
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 November 2024, putting it among the 221 of 1,122 Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Sugar Land holds 57 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 48 of them optometry and 9 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 77479. 51 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Eldridge Eye Care PA in Sugar Land, 0.7 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
649 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands metro itself there are 1,122, 56 of them elsewhere in Sugar Land. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eldridge Eye Care PA | Sugar Land | Optometry | 0.7 mi | (832) 934-1166 |
| Texas Eye Institute | Sugar Land | Ophthalmology | 0.9 mi | (281) 242-8841 |
| Lone Star Eye Care, PA | Sugar Land | Ophthalmology | 1.1 mi | (281) 277-8400 |
| Visionary Surgical Arts | Sugar Land | Ophthalmology | 1.1 mi | (832) 244-3131 |
| Colony Eye Care Center, LLP | Sugar Land | Optometry | 1.1 mi | (281) 265-2020 |
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 Dry Eye Center, 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 Dry Eye Center 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 1,122 practices on the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands page give you the full local field to call around.