Erkers Eyecare, Saint Louis: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1437010501
- Legal business name
- Ladue Optometry LLC
- Registered trading name
- Erkers Eyecare
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 9717 Clayton Rd
Saint Louis, MO 63124-1503 - Phone on the record
- (314) 997-0002
- NPI issued
- November 19, 2025
- Record last updated by the practice
- November 19, 2025
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- St. Louis, MO-IL
- County
- St. Louis County
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Ladue Optometry LLC and registered Erkers Eyecare 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 November 2025, putting it among the 35 of 314 St. Louis records updated in 2024 or later, so the contact details are more likely to be current than most of this metro.
For local context: Saint Louis holds 110 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 82 of them optometry and 28 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 63124. 109 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Erker's Eyecare in Saint Louis, 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 Missouri 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Erker's Eyecare | Optometry | December 2020 |
Nearest registered practices
343 other registered eye care practices sit within 25 miles of this address, a radius that does not stop at the metro boundary. Inside the St. Louis metro itself there are 314, 109 of them elsewhere in Saint Louis. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erker's Eyecare | Saint Louis | Optometry | 0.0 mi | (314) 997-0002 |
| Abby Kilgore O.d,P.C. | Saint Louis | Optometry | 0.1 mi | (314) 993-4399 |
| Complete Eye Care, Inc. | Saint Louis | Ophthalmology | 0.2 mi | (314) 395-9613 |
| James C. Bobrow, Inc. | Saint Louis | Ophthalmology | 0.8 mi | (314) 721-1140 |
| Crown Optical | Saint Louis | Optometry | 2.2 mi | (314) 721-2720 |
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 Erkers Eyecare. Based on this site's own price research, an independent optometry practice typically charges $120 to $200 for an exam without insurance, against a national average of about $136 and roughly $25 once a vision plan pays its share.
Ask two things when you call: whether the quoted fee includes the refraction, and what a contact lens fitting adds if you wear lenses, since that takes a visit to $150 to $370. A comprehensive exam is $100 to $250. If price is the deciding factor, the 314 practices on the St. Louis page give you the full local field to call around.