Mental Health Screening Initiative for Primary Care

December 2023 Reporting Form

The Mental Health Screening Initiative is intended to:

  • Augment the standard annual depression screening and follow-up quality measure (i.e. PREV-12), exploring suicidality and anxiety in addition to depression
  • Improve mental health screening rates and follow-up on positive mental health screening results
  • Expand electronic documentation and reporting of Mental Health Screening results and follow-up

Reporting on the Mental Health Screening Initiative is designed to capture the rates of screening for mental health disorders for patient encounters from January 1, 2023 – October 31, 2023.

Please submit report by December 1, 2023

For information regarding requirements and screening tool options, please refer to the guidance and policy documents: