Thank you for inquiring about the Preventive Care and Screening: Screening for Depression and Follow-Up Plan eCQM. Please review the scoring guidance for the tools used at your facility to determine the threshold for mild depression or above, as CMS does not provide guidance on score interpretation for this eCQM. The measure’s Guidance section indicates “This measure does not require documentation of a specific score, just whether results of the normalized and validated depression screening tool used are considered positive or negative.” The patient's responses to the initial depression screening, even if only mild depression based on scoring, require a follow-up (non-screening or assessment) action within 2 days of the encounter. The determination of whether follow-up is necessary is based on the age-appropriate, standardized, and validated depression screening tool’s established thresholds for depression (mild or above). The measure also allows providers to exercise their clinical judgment to determine the intensity of the follow-up intervention ordered or performed, which could be as simple as exercise therapy (SNOMED CT 229065009) for mild depression.