Primary Eyecare & Eyeware, Saint Louis: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1154190411
- Legal business name
- Murphy Optometry Inc.
- Registered trading name
- Primary Eyecare & Eyeware
- Primary registered specialty
- Optometrist (152W00000X)
- Practice location
- 9051 Watson Rd Ste D
Saint Louis, MO 63126-2240 - Phone on the record
- (314) 962-1700
- NPI issued
- December 28, 2023
- Record last updated by the practice
- July 10, 2025
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- St. Louis, MO-IL
- County
- St. Louis County
- Duplicate registrations at this address
- 2 additional NPIs for the same name and address, folded into this record
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Murphy Optometry Inc. and registered Primary Eyecare & Eyeware 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 July 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 63126. 108 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Advanced Eye Care Center in Saint Louis, 0.4 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
340 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Eye Care Center | Saint Louis | Ophthalmology | 0.4 mi | (314) 543-2850 |
| Eye See Vision Center | Crestwood | Optometry | 0.6 mi | (314) 651-3883 |
| Rosen Optometry Associates Inc | Saint Louis | Optometry | 0.9 mi | (314) 968-3660 |
| Rosen Optometry | Saint Louis | Optometry | 0.9 mi | (314) 843-2020 |
| Webster Vision Center | Saint Louis | Optometry | 0.9 mi | (314) 961-1211 |
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 Primary Eyecare & Eyeware. 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.