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St. Joseph - CMS NPI registry, October 2026

Eye Doctors in St. Joseph, MO: 7 Registered Practices

7 eye care organizations on the Missouri side of the St. Joseph metropolitan statistical area area hold a current NPI in the October 2026 CMS file: 4 optometry practices (57 percent) and 3 ophthalmology practices. They spread across 1 city, led by Saint Joseph (7). The metro covers Buchanan County. 1 records were refreshed by the practice in 2024 or later and 5 have not been updated since before 2020. The Kansas side of the same metro adds 1 more, listed separately.

Booking here: 57 percent of St. Joseph 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.

Registered practices
7
0 with a profile page
Optometry
4
57% of this metro
Ophthalmology
3
0 register a subspecialty
Cities covered
1
1 county
Address matched
71%
rest placed at a ZIP code centroid

What an eye exam costs around St. Joseph

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.

Every registered practice in St. Joseph

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
Bonebrake Vision & Eye Center LLCSaint JosephOptometry(816) 279-5683November 2016
Gaston Optometry, P.C.Saint JosephOptometry(816) 232-5514August 2020
Insight Eyecare Specialties IncSaint JosephOptometry(816) 279-2339January 2025
Murphy Watson Burr Eye Center IncSaint JosephOphthalmology(816) 233-2020July 2012
O'Bryan Eyecare, P.C.Saint JosephOptometry(816) 364-5800October 2009
Perfect Sense Eye Center St. Joe, LLCSaint JosephOphthalmology(816) 279-7015June 2012
Tobin Eye Institute
Registered as Robert F Tobin & Associates, Inc
Saint JosephOphthalmology(816) 279-1363January 2012

Phone numbers are the practice location numbers on the NPI record. They are self-reported, CMS does not verify them, and 5 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 Missouri licensing boards.

Nearby metro areas

Atchison, KS (5)Maryville, MO (4)Kansas City, MO (126)Kansas City, KS (147)Lawrence, KS (22)Topeka, KS (40)St. Joseph: Kansas side (1)All Missouri 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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