Vision Essence Inc., Houston: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1396763157
- Legal business name
- Vision Essence Inc.
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 7586 W Bellfort St
Houston, TX 77071-2102 - Phone on the record
- (713) 773-4700
- NPI issued
- July 18, 2006
- Record last updated by the practice
- July 21, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX
- County
- Harris County
- Parent organization
- Vision Essence Inc
- Organization subpart
- Yes, this location bills as a subpart of a larger organization
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
CMS records this location as a subpart of Vision Essence Inc, meaning it bills under its own NPI but belongs to a larger organization. The entry was last refreshed in July 2022. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 221 of 1,122 records were updated in 2024 or later and 621 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 77071. 33 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Olga Kotlyar, OD, PLLC in Houston, 0.4 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
828 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, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olga Kotlyar, OD, PLLC | Houston | Optometry | 0.4 mi | (713) 515-5626 |
| Elda Lauras Optical Latina LLC | Houston | Optometry | 2.2 mi | (713) 271-6567 |
| Nanda Dry Eye & Vision Institute, PLLC | Houston | Optometry | 2.3 mi | (832) 966-0660 |
| Atasca Eye Center | Houston | Optometry | 2.3 mi | (713) 668-4580 |
| Eye Trends | Houston | Corneal and contact lens management | 2.3 mi | (713) 771-2020 |
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 Vision Essence Inc., 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 Vision Essence Inc. 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.