CCLE TEST PAPER EXAM 2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔A chiropractor wants to create a chiropractic corporation with an acupuncturist,
massage therapist, and naturopath. In what way must the shares be split up to be legal?
- ✔✔The following licensed persons may be shareholders, officers, directors, or
professional employees of the professional corporations so long as the *sum of all
shares owned by those licensed persons does not exceed 49 percent of the total
number of shares* of the professional corporation so designated herein.
i.e. a DC has to hold the majority of shares in a chiropractic corporation.
✔✔A new patient is primarily Spanish speaking. You are obligated to:
a. provide a translator of her language
b. document her principle language in the file
c. provide her with forms in her language - ✔✔b. document her principle language in the
file
123147.(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), all health facilities, as defined in
Section 1250, and all primary care clinics that are either licensed under Section 1204 or
exempt from licensure under Section 1206, shall include a patient's principal spoken
language on the patient's health records.
(b) Any long-term health care facility, as defined in Section 1418, that already completes
the minimum data set form as specified in Section 14110.15 of the Welfare and
Institutions Code, including documentation of a patient's principal spoken language,
shall be deemed to be in compliance with subdivision (a).
✔✔Who determines if treatment is excessive? - ✔✔Determined by the community of
fellow licensees. Excessive treatment is considered unprofessional conduct for a
chiropractor.
✔✔What is the consequence of being charged with excessive treatment? -
✔✔*Misdemeanor* and shall be punished by a fine of *$100 - $600* or by imprisonment
for a term of *60 - 180 days*, or *both* a fine and imprisonment.
✔✔Your CA is the last one in the office and has sexual events with the last patient. The
patient files a complaint. Who is responsible? - ✔✔YOU, SUCKA!
DC is responsible for all activities that happen in the office, even when outside business
hours or not present.
Every licensee is responsible for the conduct of employees or other persons subject to
his supervision in his place of practice, and shall insure that all such conduct in his
place of practice conforms to the law and to the regulations herein.
, ✔✔A husband & wife are both DCs and practice in the same office on different days.
The business is all in the husbands name. The wife has an affair with a patient. Who is
liable? - ✔✔The husband because the practice is in his name and the wife for sexual
misconduct.
Every licensee is responsible for the conduct of employees or other persons subject to
his supervision in his place of practice, and shall insure that all such conduct in his
place of practice conforms to the law and to the regulations herein.
✔✔What happens to a practice once a DC dies? - ✔✔The unlicensed heirs or trustees
of the chiropractor *must dispose of the practice within 6 months*. At all times during
that period the *practice must be supervised by a licensed chiropractor*. The board will
consider a *petition to extend this period* if it is *submitted within 4 months after the
death* or the declaration of incompetence of the licensee, including identification of any
extenuating circumstances that will prevent compliance.
✔✔When is it legal for a DC to promise a job after graduation to a student? -
✔✔Promising a job to an unlicensed student is prohibited. This restriction does not
apply to students and doctors who participate in *preceptorship programs* sponsored
by chiropractic institutions holding status with the Council on Chiropractic Education or
seeking such status.
✔✔An insurance company requests your records of a patient, which of the following
needs to be included?
a. drugs & alcohol
b. HIV
c. history of mental illness
d. hepatits - ✔✔c. history of mental illness
CA chapter shall not require a health care provider to permit inspection or provide
copies of alcohol and drug abuse records.
Communicable diseases are part of the doctor-patient confidentiality.
✔✔A DC wants to hire an unlicensed person to help with adjunctive PT. What must be
done to be compliant? - ✔✔DC must provide adequate supervision in accordance with
board regulations.
✔✔What constitutes adequate supervision of an unlicensed individual under board
regulations? - ✔✔DC:
a. shall be present at least 50% of any work week
b. shall be readily available to the said individual at all other times for advice, assistance
and instruction
c. shall initially examine & prepare a written treatment program for a patient
d. shall provide periodic re-evaluation (1x/30 days) of the treatment program
e. shall perform & record an evaluation of patient and their response to treatment
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔A chiropractor wants to create a chiropractic corporation with an acupuncturist,
massage therapist, and naturopath. In what way must the shares be split up to be legal?
- ✔✔The following licensed persons may be shareholders, officers, directors, or
professional employees of the professional corporations so long as the *sum of all
shares owned by those licensed persons does not exceed 49 percent of the total
number of shares* of the professional corporation so designated herein.
i.e. a DC has to hold the majority of shares in a chiropractic corporation.
✔✔A new patient is primarily Spanish speaking. You are obligated to:
a. provide a translator of her language
b. document her principle language in the file
c. provide her with forms in her language - ✔✔b. document her principle language in the
file
123147.(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), all health facilities, as defined in
Section 1250, and all primary care clinics that are either licensed under Section 1204 or
exempt from licensure under Section 1206, shall include a patient's principal spoken
language on the patient's health records.
(b) Any long-term health care facility, as defined in Section 1418, that already completes
the minimum data set form as specified in Section 14110.15 of the Welfare and
Institutions Code, including documentation of a patient's principal spoken language,
shall be deemed to be in compliance with subdivision (a).
✔✔Who determines if treatment is excessive? - ✔✔Determined by the community of
fellow licensees. Excessive treatment is considered unprofessional conduct for a
chiropractor.
✔✔What is the consequence of being charged with excessive treatment? -
✔✔*Misdemeanor* and shall be punished by a fine of *$100 - $600* or by imprisonment
for a term of *60 - 180 days*, or *both* a fine and imprisonment.
✔✔Your CA is the last one in the office and has sexual events with the last patient. The
patient files a complaint. Who is responsible? - ✔✔YOU, SUCKA!
DC is responsible for all activities that happen in the office, even when outside business
hours or not present.
Every licensee is responsible for the conduct of employees or other persons subject to
his supervision in his place of practice, and shall insure that all such conduct in his
place of practice conforms to the law and to the regulations herein.
, ✔✔A husband & wife are both DCs and practice in the same office on different days.
The business is all in the husbands name. The wife has an affair with a patient. Who is
liable? - ✔✔The husband because the practice is in his name and the wife for sexual
misconduct.
Every licensee is responsible for the conduct of employees or other persons subject to
his supervision in his place of practice, and shall insure that all such conduct in his
place of practice conforms to the law and to the regulations herein.
✔✔What happens to a practice once a DC dies? - ✔✔The unlicensed heirs or trustees
of the chiropractor *must dispose of the practice within 6 months*. At all times during
that period the *practice must be supervised by a licensed chiropractor*. The board will
consider a *petition to extend this period* if it is *submitted within 4 months after the
death* or the declaration of incompetence of the licensee, including identification of any
extenuating circumstances that will prevent compliance.
✔✔When is it legal for a DC to promise a job after graduation to a student? -
✔✔Promising a job to an unlicensed student is prohibited. This restriction does not
apply to students and doctors who participate in *preceptorship programs* sponsored
by chiropractic institutions holding status with the Council on Chiropractic Education or
seeking such status.
✔✔An insurance company requests your records of a patient, which of the following
needs to be included?
a. drugs & alcohol
b. HIV
c. history of mental illness
d. hepatits - ✔✔c. history of mental illness
CA chapter shall not require a health care provider to permit inspection or provide
copies of alcohol and drug abuse records.
Communicable diseases are part of the doctor-patient confidentiality.
✔✔A DC wants to hire an unlicensed person to help with adjunctive PT. What must be
done to be compliant? - ✔✔DC must provide adequate supervision in accordance with
board regulations.
✔✔What constitutes adequate supervision of an unlicensed individual under board
regulations? - ✔✔DC:
a. shall be present at least 50% of any work week
b. shall be readily available to the said individual at all other times for advice, assistance
and instruction
c. shall initially examine & prepare a written treatment program for a patient
d. shall provide periodic re-evaluation (1x/30 days) of the treatment program
e. shall perform & record an evaluation of patient and their response to treatment
