Southern Eye Care Associates, Oak Hill: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1902677578
- Legal business name
- McGuffin Eye Care, PLLC
- Registered trading name
- Southern Eye Care Associates
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 140 Main St W
Oak Hill, WV 25901-2968 - Phone on the record
- (304) 469-6711
- NPI issued
- January 12, 2024
- Record last updated by the practice
- January 12, 2024
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Beckley, WV
- County
- Fayette County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name McGuffin Eye Care, PLLC and registered Southern Eye Care Associates 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 1 of 17 Beckley records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Oak Hill holds 3 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 3 of them optometry and 0 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 25901. 2 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Byron J Nibert DBA Southern Eye Care Associates in Oak Hill, 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 West Virginia boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Also registered at this address
1 other organization holds an NPI at the same street address. Shared suites and multi-specialty buildings are common, and it is worth knowing which entity you are actually booking with.
| Organization | Registered as | Record updated |
|---|---|---|
| Byron J Nibert DBA Southern Eye Care Associates | Optometry | September 2008 |
Nearest registered practices
16 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Beckley metro itself there are 17, 2 of them elsewhere in Oak Hill. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Byron J Nibert DBA Southern Eye Care Associates | Oak Hill | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (304) 469-6711 |
| New River Vision Care | Oak Hill | Optometry | 2.3 mi | (304) 465-0269 |
| Family Vision Care Inc | Fayetteville | Optometry | 4.8 mi | (304) 574-3557 |
| Eyecare One | Beckley | Optometry | 11.1 mi | (304) 252-1050 |
| Henry P. Gosiene,M.D.,P.C. | Beckley | Ophthalmology | 12.0 mi | (304) 252-4216 |
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 Southern Eye Care Associates, 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 Southern Eye Care Associates 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 17 practices on the Beckley page give you the full local field to call around.