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: