Vision Institute Northwest, Spokane: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1861833378
- Legal business name
- Melissa Barnhart, OD, PLLC
- Registered trading name
- Vision Institute Northwest
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 12 E Rowan Ave Ste 1
Spokane, WA 99207-1281 - Phone on the record
- (509) 487-0600
- NPI issued
- July 12, 2013
- Record last updated by the practice
- September 27, 2022
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA
- County
- Spokane County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Melissa Barnhart, OD, PLLC and registered Vision Institute Northwest 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 September 2022. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 8 of 61 records were updated in 2024 or later and 37 predate 2020.
For local context: Spokane holds 35 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 27 of them optometry and 8 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 99207. 23 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Franklin Park Vision in Spokane, 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 Washington boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
59 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Spokane-Spokane Valley metro itself there are 61, 34 of them elsewhere in Spokane. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin Park Vision | Spokane | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (509) 487-0600 |
| Matthew A Jones OD Ps | Spokane | Optometry | 0.1 mi | (509) 484-6550 |
| Bradley G Gruver & Kenneth L Koch Ptrs | Spokane | Optometry | 0.1 mi | (509) 487-5456 |
| Eye Consultants Ps | Spokane | Ophthalmology | 0.2 mi | (509) 484-5710 |
| Northtown Vision Clinic | Spokane | Corneal and contact lens management | 0.4 mi | (509) 482-0217 |
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 Vision Institute Northwest. 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 61 practices on the Spokane-Spokane Valley page give you the full local field to call around.