Stellar Eye Care SC, Appleton: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1861989501
- Legal business name
- Stellar Eye Care SC
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Other registered specialties
- Ophthalmology
- Practice location
- 2600 W College Ave Ste 1
Appleton, WI 54914-4200 - Phone on the record
- (920) 735-9914
- NPI issued
- April 18, 2018
- Record last updated by the practice
- April 14, 2026
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 2026
- Metro area
- Appleton, WI
- County
- Outagamie County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
Beyond the primary code the record carries Ophthalmology, which is the registry's own signal that the practice covers more than routine work. The entry was refreshed in April 2026, putting it among the 5 of 28 Appleton records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Appleton holds 16 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 11 of them optometry and 5 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 54914. 12 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Beaudoin & Wade in Appleton, 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 Wisconsin boards hold the licensing record, and the practice itself is the only source for what it charges today.
Nearest registered practices
48 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the Appleton metro itself there are 28, 15 of them elsewhere in Appleton. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaudoin & Wade | Appleton | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (920) 735-9580 |
| Northeast Wisconsin Retina Associates SC | Appleton | Retina | 0.8 mi | (920) 751-8666 |
| Dr. Jill Anderson & Associates, LLC | Appleton | Optometry | 0.9 mi | (920) 733-7804 |
| Teleoptometric Service, P.C. | Appleton | Optometry | 0.9 mi | (380) 223-3412 |
| Alexander Eye Institute, SC | Appleton | Ophthalmology | 1.3 mi | (920) 830-2020 |
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 Stellar Eye Care SC, 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 Stellar Eye Care SC 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 28 practices on the Appleton page give you the full local field to call around.