Thank you for your question about telehealth eligibility in CMS 155v8 and v9 “Weight Assessment and Counseling for Nutrition and Physical Activity for Children and Adolescents.” The measure is considered telehealth eligible because value sets for eligible encounters contain encounter codes that can be used for in-person or telehealth encounters. Patient self-reported values are allowed if collected by the primary care provider or specialist providing a primary care service and recorded, dated, and maintained in the patient's electronic health record.

The eCQM Child Weight Screening/BMI/Nutritional/Physical Activity Counseling measure (both the older version, CMS 155v8, and the newer version, CMS 155v9) is "telehealth eligible". We don't have a way of capturing height/weight for telehealth visits, therefore, any telehealth visit for a child aged 3-17 automatically has a negative impact on our performance for this measure. How would you advise we capture height/weight/BMI for telehealth visits? Can this information be self-reported by the patient?