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Seattle, WA - NPI registry record

Ak Eyecare, Seattle: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context

Ak Eyecare holds NPI 1942399860, 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 8032 35TH Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98115, inside the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metropolitan statistical area area. The NPI was issued in October 2006, 20 years ago, and the practice last updated its own entry in May 2023.

What the registry record says

NPI number
1942399860
Legal business name
Stephen Goo, OD, Ps
Registered trading name
Ak Eyecare
Primary registered specialty
Optometrist (152W00000X)
Practice location
8032 35TH Ave NE
Seattle, WA 98115-4815
Phone on the record
(206) 523-6674
NPI issued
October 11, 2006
Record last updated by the practice
May 18, 2023
Registry status
NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
County
King County
Location precision
Street address matched by the US Census geocoder

Reading this record

The practice bills under the legal name Stephen Goo, OD, Ps and registered Ak Eyecare as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. The entry was last refreshed in May 2023. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 92 of 508 records were updated in 2024 or later and 300 predate 2020.

For local context: Seattle holds 95 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 74 of them optometry and 21 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 98115. 14 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Eyes on You in Seattle, 0.6 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 Washington boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.

Nearest registered practices

388 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metro itself there are 508, 94 of them elsewhere in Seattle. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.

PracticeCityRegistered asDistancePhone on record
Eyes on YouSeattleOptometry0.6 mi(425) 577-0654
New Eyedentity, LLCSeattleOptometry1.5 mi(206) 526-2020
City Eyeworks LLCSeattleOptometry1.5 mi(206) 432-9051
Roosevelt Vision Clinic, PLLCSeattleOptometry1.8 mi(206) 527-2987
Arcadia Eye Clinic PCSeattleOphthalmology1.8 mi(206) 363-2688

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 Ak Eyecare, 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 Ak Eyecare 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 508 practices on the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue 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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