Eye Doctors in Barre, VT: 11 Registered Practices
Booking here: 91 percent of Barre records are optometry practices, which is the side of the market that does routine exams at $120 to $200 without insurance. The 1 ophthalmology practices are physician offices and price accordingly, at $150 to $300 or more.
What an eye exam costs around Barre
No prices exist in the NPI registry, so treat the list below as a call sheet rather than a quote sheet. The nearest published national figure is $95, the median starting exam fee across the 1,280 US retail optical stores that print one on their own store pages (30 September 2026), and Medicare pays $149.64 for a comprehensive new-patient exam (CPT 92004).
No national retail optical brand is registered under its own name in this metro, so expect the independent optometry band of $120 to $200 rather than the $50 to $110 retail band. A comprehensive exam is $80 to $120 at the middle half of stores that print a price, and a contact lens fitting is priced separately, at a $129 median published fee.
Where the practices are
| City | Practices | Optometry | Ophthalmology |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montpelier | 7 | 6 | 1 |
| Barre | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Berlin | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Waitsfield | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Waterbury | 1 | 1 | 0 |
City is the free-text value the practice entered in the registry. Every city in this table sits inside the Barre micropolitan statistical area area as defined by the Census 2023 delineation.
Every registered practice in Barre
Ordered by city, then by name. Names in blue have a profile page with the full registry record and the nearest alternatives.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Phone on record | Record updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Optical Expressions Berlin, LLC | Barre | Optometry | (802) 223-2090 | September 2024 |
| Optical Expressions Berlin Registered as Optical Expressions, Inc. | Berlin | Optometry | (802) 223-2090 | August 2020 |
| Doyle Eye Care Registered as Brian C. Doyle, M.D., PLC. | Montpelier | Ophthalmology | (802) 229-9554 | August 2015 |
| Dr. Jay Kimberley PC | Montpelier | Optometry | (802) 223-3722 | August 2020 |
| Heritage Eye Care LLC | Montpelier | Optometry | (802) 223-3761 | May 2023 |
| Heritage Optical Registered as Lois M Shiozawa | Montpelier | Optometry | (802) 223-3761 | June 2008 |
| Karena Shippee, OD | Montpelier | Optometry | (802) 223-7723 | October 2008 |
| Montpelier Eye Care, P.C. | Montpelier | Optometry | (802) 223-7723 | April 2016 |
| Shippee Family Eye Care PC | Montpelier | Optometry | (802) 223-7723 | September 2021 |
| Mad River Eye Care PLLC | Waitsfield | Corneal and contact lens management | (802) 730-5167 | April 2018 |
| Waterbury Eye Care Center, PLC | Waterbury | Optometry | (802) 244-1360 | January 2017 |
Phone numbers are the practice location numbers on the NPI record. They are self-reported, CMS does not verify them, and 6 of these records have not been updated since before 2020. An NPI does not mean the practice is licensed: that is a matter for the Vermont licensing boards.