Icare Clinic, Houston: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1124388715
- Legal business name
- I-Kia Vision Center PLLC
- Registered trading name
- Icare Clinic
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 14405 Bellaire Blvd Ste B
Houston, TX 77083-7534 - Phone on the record
- (832) 717-3937
- NPI issued
- May 17, 2012
- Record last updated by the practice
- August 10, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX
- County
- Harris County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name I-Kia Vision Center PLLC and registered Icare Clinic 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 August 2023. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 210 of 1,115 records were updated in 2024 or later and 624 predate 2020.
For local context: Houston holds 489 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 400 of them optometry and 89 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 77083. 269 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Vision Source - Copperfield PA in Houston, 0.6 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
745 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 1,115, 488 of them elsewhere in Houston. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vision Source - Copperfield PA | Houston | Optometry | 0.6 mi | (281) 859-8000 |
| Stanbridge Eye Center PA | Houston | Optometry | 0.6 mi | (832) 328-1971 |
| Vision Corner Ltd, LLP | Houston | Optometry | 0.8 mi | (281) 498-1381 |
| Bruce Wick OD PHD PA | Houston | Optometry | 0.9 mi | (281) 933-3446 |
| Eyedeal Vision | Houston | Optometry | 1.0 mi | (713) 526-1718 |
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 Icare Clinic. 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 1,115 practices on the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands page give you the full local field to call around.