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 August 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 68 of 326 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 241 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 173 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
287 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 326, 240 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. 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 326 practices on the San Antonio-New Braunfels page give you the full local field to call around.