The Retina Institute, Brentwood: NPI Registry Record and Eye Exam Cost Context
What the registry record says
- NPI number
- 1700175395
- Legal business name
- Retina Consultants, LLC
- Registered trading name
- The Retina Institute
- Primary registered specialty
- Ophthalmology, Retina Specialist (207WX0107X)
- Practice location
- 1600 S Brentwood Blvd Ste 700
Brentwood, MO 63144-1304 - Phone on the record
- (314) 367-1181
- NPI issued
- April 4, 2011
- Record last updated by the practice
- October 6, 2025
- Registry status
- NPI registry record, active as reported by CMS August 2026
- Metro area
- St. Louis, MO-IL
- County
- St. Louis County
- Locations under this name
- 11 registered nationally
- Location precision
- Street address matched by the US Census geocoder
Reading this record
The practice bills under the legal name Retina Consultants, LLC and registered The Retina Institute as its trading name, so an insurance statement may show a name that does not match the sign on the door. 11 locations nationally are registered under the same name, so pricing and policies are likely to be set at group level rather than at this office. The entry was refreshed in October 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: Brentwood holds 2 registered eye care practices in this snapshot, 1 of them optometry and 1 ophthalmology, in ZIP codes including 63144. 1 of them took an NPI before this practice did. The closest is Clarkson Eyecare in Brentwood, 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
357 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, 1 of them elsewhere in Brentwood. The closest 5 are below, measured straight line between registered addresses.
| Practice | City | Registered as | Distance | Phone on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clarkson Eyecare | Brentwood | Optometry | 0.3 mi | (636) 200-4393 |
| Antoine Eye Care, LLC | Saint Louis | Optometry | 0.4 mi | (314) 862-1525 |
| Eye Care Associates of St Louis LLC | Richmond Heights | Ophthalmology | 0.6 mi | (314) 863-4200 |
| Retina & Vitreous Consultants Inc | Saint Louis | Ophthalmology | 0.6 mi | (314) 881-1211 |
| Stephanie Krogh OD LLC | Saint Louis | Optometry | 0.7 mi | (314) 968-6432 |
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 The Retina Institute. Based on this site's own price research, an ophthalmology practice typically charges $150 to $300 or more for an exam without insurance, against a national average of about $136 and roughly $25 once a vision plan pays its share.
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 253 optometry practices on the St. Louis page if you only need a prescription.