Thank you for requesting clarification on the Preventive Care and Screening: Screening for Depression and Follow-Up Plan eCQM. The value set “Encounter to Screen for Depression” includes concepts that represent wellness visits, annual visits, therapy evaluations, or primary or specialist physician office visits where a depression screen should be conducted. Family providers report these transitional care management (TCM) visits for moderate to high complexity follow-up care provided after discharge from an inpatient hospital or skilled nursing facility. While a depression screening could be performed during these encounters, the focus of these encounters will likely be on other complex medical needs. This is consistent with the other preventative screening measures—TCM encounter codes are not in the qualifying encounters value sets.