Northwest Eye Specialists, Houston: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1487836474
- Legal business name
- Rana R Ghauri MD PA
- Registered trading name
- Northwest Eye Specialists
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology (207W00000X)
- Practice location
- 10726 Huffmeister Rd Ste 240
Houston, TX 77065-3182 - Phone on the record
- (281) 469-3830
- NPI issued
- November 30, 2007
- Record last updated by the practice
- January 16, 2025
- 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 Rana R Ghauri MD PA and registered Northwest Eye Specialists as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. The entry was refreshed in January 2025, putting it among the 210 of 1,115 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: Houston holds 489 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 400 of them optometry and 89 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 77065. 154 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Gill Eye Associates in Houston, 0.1 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
791 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gill Eye Associates | Houston | Ophthalmology | 0.1 mi | (281) 761-2020 |
| Gurpreet Singh, MD, PA | Cypress | Ophthalmology | 1.3 mi | (281) 890-7444 |
| True Vision Family Eyecare | Cypress | Pediatric optometry | 1.3 mi | (281) 653-9223 |
| Vision Concept PLLC | Houston | Optometry | 1.6 mi | (281) 407-4886 |
| Direct Eyecare P.C. | Cypress | Optometry | 1.7 mi | (713) 382-1942 |
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 ophthalmology practice like this
The NPI registry holds no prices, so nothing here is a quote from Northwest Eye Specialists. Based on this site's own price research, an ophthalmology practice typically charges $150 to $300 or more for an exam without insurance, against a national average of about $136 and roughly $25 once a vision plan pays its share.
Ophthalmology visits are usually medical rather than routine, which changes who pays: medical insurance and Medicare Part B cover a medically necessary exam, while a routine refraction for glasses is normally not covered. Ask whether the visit will be billed as medical or routine before you book, and compare with the 951 optometry practices on the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands page if you only need a prescription.