Vision Therapy Optometrist

Compiled from official public sources by the editorial process. · Updated August 2026

NUCC 152WV0400X · Optometrist

376 CMS NPPES-registered providers across 42 states · 372nd of 690 specialties by headcount.

376

Providers

CMS NPPES-registered

States

with ≥1 NPI

California

Top state

58 providers

$1K

Open Pay avg

263rd of 551 specialties

Where this specialty sits in the corpus

Vision Therapy Optometrist ranks 372nd of 690 NUCC specialties by CMS NPPES headcount (0.01% of all registered NPIs), densest in California; per resident Oregon leads.

376
NPPES providers in specialty: 372nd
of 690 specialties: 628
state-share HHI: 37%
Part D prescriber share

Oregon is densest per capita (2.8× the national rate; Colorado 2.1×); 0.6% of the Optometrist category.

Taxonomy fingerprint

Vision Therapy Optometrist (NUCC 152WV0400X; 37% Part D prescribers (139 of 376); avg 236 Part D claims/prescriber (408th of 572); Open Payments avg $1K/physician (263rd of 551; 175 paid, $190K total); state-share HHI 628; next-larger headcount neighbor Blind Rehabilitation Specialist/Technologist (+2); next-smaller Assistant Health Information Record Technician (-1)).

Next larger: Blind Rehabilitation Specialist/Technologist (378) Next smaller: Assistant Health Information Record Technician (375)

Which states have the most providers?

#	State	Providers	% of specialty
1	California	58	15.4%
2	New York	42	11.2%
3	Texas	40	10.6%
4	New Jersey	16	4.3%
5	Colorado	14	3.7%
6	Oregon	13	3.5%
7	Pennsylvania	13	3.5%
8	Washington	13	3.5%

Sample Vision Therapy Optometrist NPIs

A directory sample from this NUCC code (not a ranking). Names and locations are unique to this taxonomy.

#	Provider	State
1	Juan Barajas, O.D.Mission, TX	Texas
2	James Campbell, O.D.Elizabethtown, KY	Kentucky
3	Michael De Rosier, ODDeer Park, WA	Washington
4	Rosalie Lee, O.D.Greenville, SC	South Carolina
5	Susan Danberg, ODGlastonbury, CT	Connecticut
6	Carl Sydnor, O.D.Brandenburg, KY	Kentucky
7	Ernest Loewenstein, O.D.Newton, MA	Massachusetts
8	Thomas Gulley, ODLittle Rock, AR	Arkansas
9	Jordan Brown, D.O.Salem, OR	Oregon
10	Audra Steiner, O.D.New York, NY	New York
11	Jennifer Simonson, OD, FOVDR, FAAOBoulder, CO	Colorado
12	Megan Petty, O.D.Centerton, AR	Arkansas

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Frequently Asked Questions

How should I read Vision Therapy Optometrist's mid-pack national roster?

376 CMS-registered Vision Therapy Optometrist providers sit across 42 states; California leads with 58. Rank 372nd of 690 NUCC specialties by headcount.

How does Vision Therapy Optometrist show up in Open Payments mid-pack?

CMS Open Payments 2024 lists 175 Vision Therapy Optometrist physicians receiving $190K across 1,131 payments (average $1K; 263rd of 551 specialties). Not a quality score.

How much Part D prescribing does this specialty do?

Among Vision Therapy Optometrist NPIs, 139 appear in the Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF (average 236 claims and $40K drug cost per prescriber; 408th of 572 specialties by average claims). Non-prescribing clinicians in the same NUCC code are still in NPPES.

Data sources and methodology

Provider data from CMS NPPES (download.cms.gov/nppes). Specialty classification from NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy (nucc.org). Part D averages from the CMS Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF; industry payments from CMS Open Payments 2024. Counts reflect self-designated primary taxonomy at NPI enrollment. PlainDoctor does not rate or rank providers. Methodology · About

Every figure on PlainDoctor is rendered directly from the federal CMS NPPES registry, Medicare Part D, MIPS, and Open Payments records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-08-27.