NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Optician in Missouri

27 NPPES records list optician with a practice address in Missouri, 0.4 per 100,000 residents, the 48th highest rate of 51. Saint Louis and Kansas City have the most; each record links to the provider's NPI and the Missouri license search.

CMS NPPES registry, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census estimates · NUCC 156FX1800X · method

Written with AI tools from the named public files; every figure is computed from those files (how it is made).

Saint Louis has the most, 7

  1. Saint Louis7
  2. Kansas City4
  3. Florissant2
  4. Joplin2
  5. Bethany1

Optician records in Missouri

  1. Robert Breen, OPTICIANBethany, MO 644241689877839
  2. James Brown, OPTICIANSaint Louis, MO 631321467678490
  3. Kimberly Burford, A.B.O.C.Saint Louis, MO 631391184905119
  4. Barbara Cashion, OPTICIANTroy, MO 633791811189525
  5. Mary Crum, OPTICIANFlorissant, MO 630331215122304
  6. Logan DavisKansas City, MO 641081679337760
  7. Shanna DorlonBranson, MO 656161619148103
  8. Athena DuncanKahoka, MO 634451558781443
  9. Jeff FarnanMaryville, MO 644681396970455
  10. Tyrone Gibson, A.B.O.C.Saint Louis, MO 631111285885673
  11. Robert Gruchala, FNAOSaint Louis, MO 631091710161716
  12. Paula Halifax, ABOC-ACKansas City, MO 641311144991191
  13. Michael HarrisSaint Louis, MO 631411801918115
  14. Mark Heffington, ABOC-FNAOSpringfield, MO 658041932234341
  15. Steve Hill, ABOCJoplin, MO 648041740205244
  16. Felicia JohnsonFlorissant, MO 630331407205529
  17. Jeffrey Labranche, ABOC, NCLECLake Saint Louis, MO 633671760140933
  18. Rebecca Lais, OPTJoplin, MO 648041467493502
  19. Robert Lootens, FNAOJefferson City, MO 651011023131570
  20. Christopher McCarty, OPTICIANWaynesville, MO 655831548684574
  21. Thomas Mills, NONEWest Plains, MO 657751679621957
  22. Joanne SchnurbuschBridgeton, MO 630441447304506
  23. Jaron Smith, ABOCKansas City, MO 641541740991595
  24. Amanda Sprague, OPTICIANHazelwood, MO 630421275175226
  25. Charles StatonSaint Louis, MO 631131396927166
  26. Melinda Walters, ABOSaint Louis, MO 631281811299621
  27. David Wright, OPTICIANKansas City, MO 641281639740699

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 156FX1800X: records by practice city and the list of records, file of Aug 9, 2026.

Missouri ranks 48 of 51 per resident

  1. Iowa0.6
  2. Arkansas0.6
  3. Illinois0.4
  4. Missouri0.4
  5. Mississippi0.4
  6. Utah0.4
  7. 50 states and D.C.2.0

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 156FX1800X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.

0.0% of these records appear in a Medicare file, against 0.7% nationally

A Medicare file here is Part D prescribing (2024), a MIPS score (2023), an Open Payments record (2024) or Medicare group billing (CMS Doctors and Clinicians). A record outside them may still see patients: these files cover Medicare only.

  1. Missouri0.0%
  2. United States0.7%

Optician records in Missouri, measured

  • In a Medicare file0 of 27 · 0.0% here, 0.7% nationally
  • In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file0 · 0.0% here, under 0.1% nationally
  • Not updated in five years or more23 · 85.2% here, 54.4% nationally

Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026 (primary taxonomy 156FX1800X); CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024 and Doctors and Clinicians, matched by NPI.

What the count covers

27 NPPES records list optician (156FX1800X) as their primary taxonomy with a practice address in Missouri: 0.4 per 100,000 residents against 2 nationally (50 states and D.C.). Saint Louis has 7 of them (26%).

A record is a registration a provider made and keeps up to date: it shows neither that the provider is licensed nor that they still practice there. The state's own license search is the check.

States with a similar number

  1. Louisiana28
  2. Rhode Island26
  3. Kansas24
  4. New Mexico24

States with a similar rate per 100,000

  1. Illinois0.4
  2. Mississippi0.4
  3. Utah0.4
  4. Arkansas0.6

The largest states

  1. New York1,141
  2. Ohio729
  3. Florida654
  4. California334
  5. Kentucky304

Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), file of Aug 9, 2026 (NPPES files on CMS.gov); NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy; 2023 Census population estimates. A registry record is not a license.

Figures on PlainDoctor are read from the federal files each page names (CMS NPPES, Medicare Part D, MIPS, Open Payments; the HHS-OIG exclusion list only as counts) and from Census population estimates, with the file date shown beside them. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of Aug 9, 2026.