Tso Bandera, San Antonio: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1538530845
- Legal business name
- Alamo City Vision Care, LLC
- Registered trading name
- Tso Bandera
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 9234 N Loop 1604 W, Ste 104
San Antonio, TX 78249-2983 - Phone on the record
- (210) 417-4177
- NPI issued
- October 13, 2015
- Record last updated by the practice
- January 29, 2024
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX
- County
- Bexar County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Alamo City Vision Care, LLC and registered Tso Bandera 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 2024, putting it among the 71 of 328 San Antonio-New Braunfels records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: San Antonio holds 242 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 174 of them optometry and 68 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 78249. 150 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Texas State Optical in San Antonio, 0.0 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
288 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the San Antonio-New Braunfels metro itself there are 328, 241 of them elsewhere in San Antonio. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas State Optical | San Antonio | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (210) 417-4177 |
| The Eye Clinic | Helotes | Ophthalmology | 0.3 mi | (210) 695-2222 |
| Today's Vision | Helotes | Optometry | 0.4 mi | (210) 509-9998 |
| Bandera Family Eye Care | San Antonio | Optometry | 0.5 mi | (210) 256-2020 |
| Bandera Family Eyecare | San Antonio | Optometry | 0.5 mi | (210) 256-2020 |
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 Tso Bandera, 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 Tso Bandera 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 328 practices on the San Antonio-New Braunfels page give you the full local field to call around.