Cost
$9,543
Published tuition (Diploma tuition/fees (2025-26 basis))
| Item | Amount | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Diploma tuition/fees (2025-26 basis) Published price · includes tuition, fees Approximate; based on 2025-26 school year; book costs vary | $9,543 total | Compulsory? not stated |
- Other compulsory charges may exist that the provider does not publish.
- Prices checked October 18, 2026.
Delivery and schedule
- Format
- Fully online
- Pacing
- Self-paced
- Scheduled live attendance
- No scheduled live sessions stated
- Start dates
- Scheduled start datesFall start only; Apply By: August 20, 2026; Classes Start: August 24, 2026
- Expected duration
- Not published
- Weekly workload
- Not published
- Course access
- Not published
- In-person requirements
- None stated by the provider
Award and certification
- Award from the institution
- Diploma: Medical Coding Specialist DiplomaIssued by Ridgewater College
- Academic credit
- Credit-bearing · 40 credits
- Professional credential preparation
- No exam preparation is stated by the provider
- Eligibility caveat
- Completing this program does not award a professional credential. Eligibility requirements are set by the credentialing body and may include separate education, membership or experience conditions.
Curriculum
- Overview
- Minnesota 40-credit diploma delivered fully online with no set meeting time, covering terminology, pharmacology, disease conditions, reimbursement and insurance billing.
- Main subjects
- Medical and diagnostic terminology, pharmacology and disease conditions
- Reimbursement methodologies, healthcare statistics and insurance billing
- Coding systems covered
- Not published
- Billing and reimbursement content
- insurance billing and reimbursement methodologies
- Medical terminology and anatomy
- Included
- Software or practice platform
- Not published
- Practical exercises
- Not published
Admissions
- Educational prerequisites
- Not published
- Audience
- Not published
- Age requirement
- Not published
- State or residency restrictions
- None published
- Technology requirements
- Not published
Financial assistance
- Federal student aid
- Not confirmed
- Payment plan
- Not confirmed
- Other
- Nothing published
Aid eligibility is checked per program. A university marketing a course does not make that course aid-eligible, and financing is not a scholarship or grant.
Who is behind this program
- Institution marketing the program
- Ridgewater College · Community college Research checked
- Actual training provider
- Ridgewater College (same as the institution)
- Underlying program
- Medical Coding Specialist Diploma
- Institutional accreditation / approvals
- Not confirmedInstitutional accreditation does not mean a program is approved by a professional certification body.
Sources and review
Last reviewed October 18, 2026. Source check: “verified” means the quoted text was found on the page by an automated check; “pending” means not yet checked or the page could not be read.
- verifiedinstitutionridgewater.edu“Medical Coding Starting Cost: $9,543”
- verifiedawardridgewater.edu“Medical Coding Specialist Diploma”
- verifiedcurriculumridgewater.edu“Reimbursement methodologies, healthcare statistics and insurance billing”
- verifiedofficial pageridgewater.edu
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