Oc and Associates, Saint Louis: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1609644350
- Legal business name
- Olta Cuci
- Registered trading name
- Oc and Associates
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 7437 Watson Rd
Saint Louis, MO 63119-4415 - Phone on the record
- (314) 687-1213
- NPI issued
- December 12, 2023
- Record last updated by the practice
- December 12, 2023
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS October 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 Olta Cuci and registered Oc and Associates as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. The entry was last refreshed in December 2023. That is neither fresh nor ancient by the standards of this metro, where 36 of 315 records were updated in 2024 or later and 208 predate 2020.
For local context: Saint Louis holds 111 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 83 of them optometry and 28 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 63119. 107 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Galanis Cataract & Laser Eye Center in Saint Louis, 0.3 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.
Nearest registered practices
351 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 315, 110 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Galanis Cataract & Laser Eye Center | Saint Louis | Ophthalmology | 0.3 mi | (314) 633-8575 |
| Crown Optical | Saint Louis | Optometry | 0.5 mi | (314) 352-5367 |
| Chippewa Eye Centre, Inc. | Saint Louis | Optometry | 1.1 mi | (314) 351-4991 |
| Webster Eyecare | Saint Louis | Optometry | 1.1 mi | (314) 962-7580 |
| Stl Vision | Saint Louis | Ophthalmology | 1.2 mi | (314) 351-0101 |
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 Oc and Associates, 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 Oc and Associates 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 315 practices on the St. Louis page give you the full local field to call around.