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October 24,2025
Halloween brings fun, fright—and a rise in emergency and urgent care visits. From pumpkin-carving cuts to hot glue burns, seasonal injuries can present coding challenges when documentation lacks detail. This guide outlines common Halloween-related encounters and provides ICD-10-CM coding examples, documentation tips, and query reminders to help ensure every case is coded accurately and compliantly. Pumpkins, costumes, and candy make Halloween fun—but also prime time for injuries. Every October, there is a spike in emergency and urgent care encounters for lacerations, burns, falls, and allergic reactions. Coders and auditors need to be ready t...
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