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  2. CQM-6094

CMS-2 Depression Follow-Up Referrals

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    • Curin Herman
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    • UChicago Medicine
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      Thank you for your inquiry regarding CMS2v12: Preventive Care and Screening: Screening for Depression and Follow-Up Plan. Referring a patient seen by a sub-specialty provider and administered a depression screening that is positive, to primary care, would satisfy the follow-up measure requirement. Providing a follow-up plan, in this case the referral, is documented on the date of or up to two days after the date of the qualifying encounter.

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      Thank you for your inquiry regarding CMS2v12: Preventive Care and Screening: Screening for Depression and Follow-Up Plan. Referring a patient seen by a sub-specialty provider and administered a depression screening that is positive, to primary care, would satisfy the follow-up measure requirement. Providing a follow-up plan, in this case the referral, is documented on the date of or up to two days after the date of the qualifying encounter.
    • CMS0002v12
    • This is impacting the build of our eCQM and follow-up referrals for positive depression screenings by sub-specialty physicians.

      We would like to know if a patient is seen by a sub-specialty provider and administered a depression screening that is positive, can the sub-specialty provider then refer the patient back to primary care for further follow-up.  Would that referral back to primary care satisfy the follow-up to a positive depression screening?  We see a primary care service code in VSAC for grouping Referral for Adolescent Depression (2.16.840.1.113883.3.526.3.1570) and want to make sure that can be used to satisfy the follow up to a positive depression screening by a sub-specialty provider.

            edave Mathematica EC eCQM Team
            cherman Curin Herman
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