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2025 Dermatology Coding Course – Recertification
2025 Dermatology Coding Course – Recertification
Maintain your Certified Dermatology Coder (CDC) certification and stay ahead in the rapidly evolving world of dermatology billing and coding. The 2025 CDC Recertification Course is designed for certified professionals who need to renew their credentials every two years, ensuring they remain up to date with the latest CPT, ICD-10-CM, modifier, and compliance updates.
With the constant changes in payer policies, telehealth regulations, and coding guidelines, staying compliant is critical to preventing claim denials, maximizing reimbursements, and maintaining career credibility. This self-paced online course provides a comprehensive recertification exam, video tutorials, and access to the latest edition of The Complete Coder for Dermatology – 2025 Edition to keep your knowledge current and relevant.
Why Recertify with the 2025 Dermatology Coding Course?
- Stay Updated with 2025 CPT and ICD-10-CM Changes
Keep pace with the latest procedural and diagnostic coding updates affecting dermatology billing.
- Master Modifier Updates and Compliance Requirements
Learn new modifier rules to ensure accurate claims processing and prevent revenue loss.
- Understand E/M Coding Adjustments for 2025
Ensure compliance with evaluation and management (E/M) documentation guidelines, including medical decision-making (MDM) updates.
- Navigate 2025 Telehealth and Virtual Care Billing
Get up-to-date insights on telehealth reimbursement policies and payer-specific coding requirements.
- Enhance Your Coding Accuracy and Efficiency
Sharpen your skills with real-world dermatology case studies, compliance insights, and best practices to improve claim approvals.
- Maintain Your CDC Certification
Recertification is required every two years to keep your Certified Dermatology Coder (CDC) status active and ensure continued recognition as an expert in dermatology billing and coding.
What’s Included in the 2025 Recertification Course?
- The Complete Coder for Dermatology – 2025 Edition
The authoritative dermatology billing and coding manual, provided in PDF format, broken down into easy-to-digest modules for structured learning.
- Archived Video Tutorials
Expert-led lessons taught by Inga Ellzey, known for her fun, engaging, and insightful teaching style, making complex coding concepts easier to understand.
- Comprehensive 150-Question Recertification Exam
A rigorous, in-depth assessment designed to test your knowledge of the latest billing, coding, and compliance updates for 2025.
- Framed Certificate
Upon successful completion, receive an official framed certificate recognizing your renewed CDC certification.
- Full Online Access
All course materials, video tutorials, and the exam are available on our user-friendly online platform, allowing you to study at your own pace, anytime, anywhere.
Who Is Eligible for Recertification?
This course is exclusively for current Certified Dermatology Coders (CDC) who need to renew their certification.
- Only individuals who have previously completed the CDC course and currently hold an active certification are eligible for recertification.
- If your CDC certification has lapsed for five years or more, you are no longer eligible for recertification and must retake the full course to regain certification.
Ensure your credentials remain active and up to date by enrolling in the 2025 CDC Recertification Course today.
Don’t Let Your Certification Lapse – Recertify Today!
Stay certified, compliant, and competitive in the dermatology billing industry. With over 4,500 professionals certified, the CDC credential is the gold standard for dermatology coding experts.
Enroll now in the 2025 CDC Recertification Course and continue your professional growth in dermatology coding.
The Recertification is designed for students who havesuccessfully completed their Certified Dermatology Coder (CDC) certification.
Our certification program is designed to prepare billers and coders for real-word coding situations in a growing industry. Our program is designed to maximize your learning potential allowing you to master all aspects of billing to increase payments and reduce denials! - Join over 3,500 students who have already received this unique and valuable credential
- Learn all aspects of billing to increase payments and reduce denials
- CDC certification is nationally recognized and is a complete education program
- Increase your coding efficiency and accuracy while building your skills and confidence
- End melanoma coding errors
- Learn the difference between simple and complicated I&Ds
- Diameter requirements for shaves and excisions
- Incident to billing explanations
- Identify over and under coding of E/M services
- Master modifier madness and CCI bundles
Modules are comprised of our best-selling reference manual The Complete Coder for Dermatology. Students can access video tutorials taught personally by Inga Ellzey, RHIA, MPA, CDC or one of her guest speakers.
This is a work at your own pace certification program. Our program is completely online and results are provided immediately. Your skills as a Certified Dermatology Coder (CDC) can be an invaluable asset to your practice with this unique certification.
Please note that we no longer provide this product in printed material format.
The course is administered completely online and at the student’s own pace. You’ll download and study modules right out of our newly revised and updated Complete Coder for Dermatology. This manual will become your text book throughout your certification journey.
Videos are provided in several of the modules as supplemental information. Please note that the videos were previously recorded and are not updated yearly. The videos provide general guidelines, be aware that there have been several changes that will not be reflected in these videos. The module PDFs will provide you with the most updated and current information you will need to successfully pass the module test. Essentially you do not need to watch the videos to complete the course. We understand that student love Inga’s quirkiness and witty nature and enjoy watching them so we decided to keep them as part of the program.
Once the student feels that they have proficiently read and reviewed the module, they are then ready to take their online exam. Each module test contains a series of multiple choice and true or false questions. Many of the questions are clinical examples challenging the student as to how that particular visit’s services should be coded. Questions are completely randomized and no two tests are the same.
Completion Guidelines
Students are allotted one year from the date of purchase to complete the course.
This is the date the course is purchased, not the date that you decide to begin taking the course. This means that all submissions must be received prior to this date. No exceptions will be made in order to stay compliant with the national standards in certification. Should you not complete your course you will forfeit your course and it will be de-activated and voided. Should you want to take the course again, you will be required to re-purchase the course. Questions about your completion date should be directed to codingcourse@iepg.com.
About CDC Certification
Once you have successfully completed all 11 modules and the final exam, you are officially a Certified Dermatology Coder™. Your new CDC™ credentials can be placed after your name. Your certification is valid for two years from the date your final exam was successfully completed. Upon successful completion students will receive a course completion package which includes a framed certificate. Please allow 3-4 weeks for delivery.
About Inga Ellzey, RHIA, MPA, CDC
The woman, the myth, the legend.
Inga Ellzey is widely recognized as the nation’s foremost expert in dermatology coding, documentation and reimbursement. Inga Ellzey spent the last 31 years as an educator which included teaching as an adjunct professor at the University of Central Florida. For ten years she served as a contracted speaker with Glaxo-Wellcome-Smith's dermatology division. During her tenure with this international pharmaceutical company, she addressed over 300 dermatology societies nationally with more than 14,000 providers and their staff attending these sessions. Her educational background includes a Master's Degree in Public Administration, a Bachelor's Degree in Medical Record Administration and national certification as a Registered Health Information Administrator.
Inga has always been known for her humor and wit making her a very sought-after lecturer. As CEO and founder of her national dermatology-specific billing services, her two companies currently service over 350 providers in 33 states. Collectively, these billing services process over $300 million dollars in insurance claims annually making hers one of the largest, single-specialty, non-hospital based billing companies in the nation.
Inga Ellzey Practice Group, Inc. in Casselberry, Florida, is the nation's foremost expert on dermatology coding, documentation, reimbursement, and medical billing. She has over forty years of experience in the field of dermatology, twenty of which were spent working with a private practicing dermatologist. Her educational background includes a Master's Degree in Public Administration, a Bachelor's Degree in Medical Record Administration and national certification as a Registered Health Information Administrator.
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