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Staunton, VA - NPI registry record

America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses, Staunton: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context

America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses holds NPI 1689440703, registered with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as an optometry organization under taxonomy code 152W00000X (Optometrist). The practice location on the record is 49 Lee Jackson Hwy Ste 101, Staunton, VA 24401, inside the Staunton-Stuarts Draft metropolitan statistical area area. The NPI was issued in November 2023, 3 years ago, and the practice last updated its own entry in November 2023.

What the registry record says

NPI number
1689440703
Legal business name
National Vision Inc
Registered trading name
America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses
Primary registered specialty
Optometrist (152W00000X)
Practice location
49 Lee Jackson Hwy Ste 101
Staunton, VA 24401-5561
Phone on the record
(540) 609-6660
NPI issued
November 29, 2023
Record last updated by the practice
November 29, 2023
Registry status
NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
County
Augusta County
Locations under this name
543 registered nationally
Location precision
Street address matched by the US Census geocoder

Reading this record

The practice bills under the legal name National Vision Inc and registered America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. 543 locations nationally are registered under the same name, so pricing and policies are likely to be set at group level rather than at this office. The name matches the America's Best retail brand, which sits at the $50 to $110 end of the exam price range rather than the independent-practice end. The entry was last refreshed in November 2023. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 2 of 10 records were updated in 2024 or later and 5 predate 2020.

For local context: Staunton holds 5 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 4 of them optometry and 1 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 24401. 3 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Karen L Schmidt OD PLLC in Staunton, 1.2 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 Virginia boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.

Nearest registered practices

18 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Staunton-Stuarts Draft metro itself there are 10, 4 of them elsewhere in Staunton. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.

PracticeCityRegistered asDistancePhone on record
Karen L Schmidt OD PLLCStauntonOptometry1.2 mi(434) 284-2858
Mpg LLCStauntonOptometry2.5 mi(540) 885-0006
Myeyedr.StauntonOptometry2.5 mi(540) 885-0006
Staunton Eye Clinic PLCStauntonOphthalmology2.9 mi(540) 885-8186
Pemberton Eye OptometryWaynesboroOptometry7.4 mi(540) 946-8727

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 America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses, 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 America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses 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 10 practices on the Staunton-Stuarts Draft page give you the full local field to call around.

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Source and provenance. CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), NPI data dissemination file, August 2026 (October 2026, published October 2026 file). CMS NPI downloadable files. Licence: US federal public data, FOIA-disclosable, no charge; CMS deactivated-NPI display guidance honoured. NPI registry records from the CMS NPPES monthly file. An NPI is a billing identifier, not a licence: CMS does not verify that the holder is licensed or credentialed. Registry contact details are self-reported and are often years out of date. This directory lists organizations only. Individual practitioner records are never published here.

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