South County Eye Care, Saint Louis: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1780140392
- Legal business name
- Metro Eye Associates, LLC
- Registered trading name
- South County Eye Care
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology (207W00000X)
- Practice location
- 13131 Tesson Ferry Rd Ste 108
Saint Louis, MO 63128-3887 - Phone on the record
- (314) 842-2020
- NPI issued
- February 19, 2019
- Record last updated by the practice
- July 22, 2022
- 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 Metro Eye Associates, LLC and registered South County Eye Care 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 July 2022. 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 63128. 95 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Vision Care Consultants Inc 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
317 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vision Care Consultants Inc | Saint Louis | Optometry | 0.3 mi | (314) 843-5700 |
| St. Louis Eye Clinic | Saint Louis | Glaucoma | 0.8 mi | (314) 352-9800 |
| Quantum Vision Center | Saint Louis | Optometry | 0.8 mi | (314) 843-4044 |
| Eye Consultants of Illinois | Saint Louis | Ophthalmology | 0.8 mi | (314) 843-4044 |
| Tekwani Vision Center ,inc | Saint Louis | Ophthalmology | 1.3 mi | (314) 842-2020 |
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 ophthalmology practice like this
The NPI registry holds no prices, so nothing here is a quote from South County Eye Care, and ophthalmology practices do not publish fee schedules. Customers report paying $150 to $300 or more 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 South County Eye Care for its self-pay price.
Ophthalmology visits are usually medical rather than routine, which changes who pays: medical insurance and Medicare Part B cover a medically necessary exam, while a routine refraction for glasses is normally not covered. Ask whether the visit will be billed as medical or routine before you book, and compare with the 254 optometry practices on the St. Louis page if you only need a prescription.