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Eau Claire - CMS NPI registry, October 2026

Eye Doctors in Eau Claire, WI: 15 Registered Practices

15 eye care organizations on the Wisconsin side of the Eau Claire metropolitan statistical area area hold a current NPI in the October 2026 CMS file: 12 optometry practices (80 percent) and 3 ophthalmology practices. They spread across 6 cities, led by Eau Claire (8), Chippewa Falls (3), Altoona (1) and Bloomer (1). The metro covers 2 counties including Chippewa County and Eau Claire County. 2 records were refreshed by the practice in 2024 or later and 9 have not been updated since before 2020.

Booking here: 80 percent of Eau Claire records are optometry practices, which is the side of the market that does routine exams at $120 to $200 without insurance. The 3 ophthalmology practices are physician offices and price accordingly, at $150 to $300 or more. Northwoods Family Eyecare, LLC run multiple offices in this metro, so one price check usually covers all of them.

Registered practices
15
3 with a profile page
Optometry
12
80% of this metro
Ophthalmology
3
0 register a subspecialty
Cities covered
6
2 counties
Address matched
100%
every record matched to a street address

What an eye exam costs around Eau Claire

No prices exist in the NPI registry, so treat the list below as a call sheet rather than a quote sheet. The nearest published national figure is $95, the median starting exam fee across the 1,280 US retail optical stores that print one on their own store pages (30 September 2026), and Medicare pays $149.64 for a comprehensive new-patient exam (CPT 92004).

No national retail optical brand is registered under its own name in this metro, so expect the independent optometry band of $120 to $200 rather than the $50 to $110 retail band. A comprehensive exam is $80 to $120 at the middle half of stores that print a price, and a contact lens fitting is priced separately, at a $129 median published fee.

Where the practices are

CityPracticesOptometryOphthalmology
Eau Claire853
Chippewa Falls330
Altoona110
Bloomer110
Cornell110
Stanley110

City is the free-text value the practice entered in the registry. Every city in this table sits inside the Eau Claire metropolitan statistical area area as defined by the Census 2023 delineation.

Every registered practice in Eau Claire

Ordered by city, then by name. Names in blue have a profile page with the full registry record and the nearest alternatives.

PracticeCityRegistered asPhone on recordRecord updated
Pearl Vision
Registered as Frie Optometry LLC
AltoonaOptometry(715) 514-1289February 2023
Herman Advanced Family Eyecare LLCBloomerOptometry(715) 568-1373November 2010
Healthview Eye Care Center - Chippewa, SCChippewa FallsOptometry(715) 726-2020September 2008
New Vista Eyecare CorpChippewa FallsOptometry(715) 726-9077June 2008
Northwoods Family Eyecare
Registered as Sk Eyecare LLC
Chippewa FallsOptometry(608) 658-4245November 2020
Northwoods Family Eyecare, LLCCornellOptometry(715) 239-6210September 2008
Chippewa Valley Eye Clinic LtdEau ClaireOphthalmology(715) 834-8471June 2024
Espy Specs SCEau ClaireOptometry(715) 318-0906October 2019
Harveye Care, LLC
Registered as Harveye, LLC
Eau ClaireOphthalmology(715) 797-8310May 2020
Hubbell Eye Clinic, S.C.Eau ClaireOptometry(715) 832-7489February 2009
Independent Vision Group, LtdEau ClaireOphthalmology(715) 449-8400April 2025
Mergenthaler Eye Care, LLCEau ClaireOptometry(715) 838-0462March 2015
River Valley Vision, S.C.Eau ClaireOptometry(715) 832-4946February 2014
Vision World
Registered as Vision World, Inc.
Eau ClaireOptometry(715) 834-8404August 2020
Northwoods Family Eyecare, LLCStanleyOptometry(715) 644-2710April 2008

Phone numbers are the practice location numbers on the NPI record. They are self-reported, CMS does not verify them, and 9 of these records have not been updated since before 2020. An NPI does not mean the practice is licensed: that is a matter for the Wisconsin licensing boards.

Groups with more than one office here

Practice groupOffices in this metro
Northwoods Family Eyecare, LLC2

Nearby metro areas

Rice Lake, WI (9)Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, WI (16)Red Wing, MN (8)Sparta, WI (4)La Crosse-Onalaska, WI (11)Wisconsin Rapids-Marshfield, WI (11)All Wisconsin practices

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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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