ACHE - BOG Exam
ACHE BOG Practice Exam Study Guide
Questions and Answers 2025
According to the ACHE's Code of Ethics, one way that healthcare executives can
avoid or minimize the negative implications of conflict of interest is to:
a. Develop a public relations plan to address potential conflict-of-interest
scenarios.
b. Not participate in the specific decision where conflict may exist. c. Ensure
members submit annual lists of major activities and holdings for inspections.
d. Make the conflict known to those in superior positions. -Correct Answer ✔D
The principles of quality improvement require that healthcare executives change
their management philosophy from
a. Finding fault with employees to finding problems in processes.
b. Finding fault with employees to involving them in the improvement of
processes.
c. Focusing on enhanced inspection techniques to focusing on variance.
d. Focusing on employees' roles to focusing on process outcomes. -Correct Answer
✔A
What type of problem arises when a healthcare executive knowingly allows the
organization to continue double billing?
a. An ethical problem for the healthcare executive, but may not be grounds for
dismissal if organizational policy is not clearly stated. b. An actual conflict of
interest, even absent a direct economic benefit to the healthcare executive.
c. An ethical problem for the employee if the healthcare executive receives direct
economic benefit.
d. An ethical problem if it clearly violates state or federal law. -Correct Answer
✔B
Which of the following is a unit of measure commonly used to determine
physicians' clinical productivity?
a. RVU
b. CMS
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c. IPO
d. CPU -Correct Answer ✔A
Which of the following third-party reimbursement methods provides the largest
financial incentive for the provider to reduce cost?
a. Charge-based
b. Cost-based
c. Prospective payment
d. Per diem -Correct Answer ✔C
Statements of earnings, financial positions, changes in financial position and
retained earnings are required to be submitted yearly by all:
a. Publicly owned healthcare organizations.
b. Privately owned healthcare organizations.
c. Government owned healthcare organizations.
d. Faith-based owned healthcare organizations. -Correct Answer ✔A
Which of the following is an Example of a capital expenditure?
a. Land that is purchased for resale.
b. Surgical equipment with a useful life of six months.
c. A building with a useful life of 20 years.
d. Medical supplies used for patient care. -Correct Answer ✔C
What is the correct order of stages for accomplishing organization change?
a. Identifying, planning, implementation, evaluation.
b. Planning, identifying, evaluation, implementation.
c. Evaluation, planning, implementation, identifying.
d. Planning, evaluation, identifying, implementation. -Correct Answer ✔A
Boards make better strategic decisions if they use information that is:
a. Readily available on special board website.
b. Generated from computer studies of departmental activity reports.
c. Summarized in graphs for better understanding.
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d. Focused on measurable outcomes of service quality and economic vitality. -
Correct Answer ✔D
The central role of the health services organization board includes all of the
following except:
a. Setting the strategic plan and service values of the organization. b. Support for
assessing changing market needs.
c. Support in managing important service programs or departments.
d. Assuring the recruitment, hire, support and reward of the CEO. -Correct Answer
✔C
The first role of the governing body is to:
a. Manage inputs of the healthcare organization to achieve the output that are its
goals.
b. Recruit members who understand the health services field.
c. Set objectives and develop policy to guide the organization in achieving its
mission.
d. Develop the operating plan and monitor departmental performance. -Correct
Answer ✔C
Internal members of the healthcare organization's governing body:
a. Serve on an ad hoc basis and are rarely voting members.
b. Are kept to a minimum due to concerns regarding confidentiality.
c. Often include the CEO, medical director and CFO.
d. Often include the executive staff in planning and information management. -
Correct Answer ✔C
In assessing the advantage of using a focus group over a survey in evaluating a
program, one could say that focus groups:
a. Are likely to use a larger sample size.
b. Are more useful in designing improvements to a program.
c. Are more precise in designing improvements to a program.
d. Are useful only when maintaining objectivity is not important. -Correct Answer
✔B
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From a marketing viewpoint, the development of standards of practice, clinical
pathways, clinical guidelines and protocols can all be viewed as efforts to deal with
which unique aspect of delivering services:
a. Inseparability.
b. Intangibility.
c. Heterogeneity.
d. Perishability. -Correct Answer ✔C
What purpose do market plans fulfill for the healthcare organization?
a. Provide a business plan (or plans) as a subset of the organization's marketing
plan.
b. Present general goals for the organization to attain in the next three to five years.
c. Develop promotion methods to be used in attaining the organization's objectives.
d. Provide specific objectives for utilization attainment the next fiscal year. -
Correct Answer ✔D
The five major functions of marketing are:
a. Identifying markets, promoting the organization, recruitment of providers,
managing external relationships, patient selection.
b. Identifying markets, health promotion, managing external relationships, patient
selection, attracting capable workers.
c. Identifying markets, promoting the organization, managing external relationship,
convincing patients to select the organization, attracting capable workers.
d. Identifying markets, promoting the organization, managing external
relationships, strategic planning, physician recruitment. -Correct Answer ✔C
Forecasting organizational need for human resources by focusing on specific
position openings that are likely to occur and using these for planning is called:
a. Demand-pull approach.
b. Supply-push approach.
c. Succession analysis.
d. Transition matrix. -Correct Answer ✔A
A health services organization should use which of the following sequential
processes to help establish human resources (HR) objectives and policies?
ACHE - BOG Exam
ACHE BOG Practice Exam Study Guide
Questions and Answers 2025
According to the ACHE's Code of Ethics, one way that healthcare executives can
avoid or minimize the negative implications of conflict of interest is to:
a. Develop a public relations plan to address potential conflict-of-interest
scenarios.
b. Not participate in the specific decision where conflict may exist. c. Ensure
members submit annual lists of major activities and holdings for inspections.
d. Make the conflict known to those in superior positions. -Correct Answer ✔D
The principles of quality improvement require that healthcare executives change
their management philosophy from
a. Finding fault with employees to finding problems in processes.
b. Finding fault with employees to involving them in the improvement of
processes.
c. Focusing on enhanced inspection techniques to focusing on variance.
d. Focusing on employees' roles to focusing on process outcomes. -Correct Answer
✔A
What type of problem arises when a healthcare executive knowingly allows the
organization to continue double billing?
a. An ethical problem for the healthcare executive, but may not be grounds for
dismissal if organizational policy is not clearly stated. b. An actual conflict of
interest, even absent a direct economic benefit to the healthcare executive.
c. An ethical problem for the employee if the healthcare executive receives direct
economic benefit.
d. An ethical problem if it clearly violates state or federal law. -Correct Answer
✔B
Which of the following is a unit of measure commonly used to determine
physicians' clinical productivity?
a. RVU
b. CMS
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,ACHE - BOG Exam
c. IPO
d. CPU -Correct Answer ✔A
Which of the following third-party reimbursement methods provides the largest
financial incentive for the provider to reduce cost?
a. Charge-based
b. Cost-based
c. Prospective payment
d. Per diem -Correct Answer ✔C
Statements of earnings, financial positions, changes in financial position and
retained earnings are required to be submitted yearly by all:
a. Publicly owned healthcare organizations.
b. Privately owned healthcare organizations.
c. Government owned healthcare organizations.
d. Faith-based owned healthcare organizations. -Correct Answer ✔A
Which of the following is an Example of a capital expenditure?
a. Land that is purchased for resale.
b. Surgical equipment with a useful life of six months.
c. A building with a useful life of 20 years.
d. Medical supplies used for patient care. -Correct Answer ✔C
What is the correct order of stages for accomplishing organization change?
a. Identifying, planning, implementation, evaluation.
b. Planning, identifying, evaluation, implementation.
c. Evaluation, planning, implementation, identifying.
d. Planning, evaluation, identifying, implementation. -Correct Answer ✔A
Boards make better strategic decisions if they use information that is:
a. Readily available on special board website.
b. Generated from computer studies of departmental activity reports.
c. Summarized in graphs for better understanding.
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d. Focused on measurable outcomes of service quality and economic vitality. -
Correct Answer ✔D
The central role of the health services organization board includes all of the
following except:
a. Setting the strategic plan and service values of the organization. b. Support for
assessing changing market needs.
c. Support in managing important service programs or departments.
d. Assuring the recruitment, hire, support and reward of the CEO. -Correct Answer
✔C
The first role of the governing body is to:
a. Manage inputs of the healthcare organization to achieve the output that are its
goals.
b. Recruit members who understand the health services field.
c. Set objectives and develop policy to guide the organization in achieving its
mission.
d. Develop the operating plan and monitor departmental performance. -Correct
Answer ✔C
Internal members of the healthcare organization's governing body:
a. Serve on an ad hoc basis and are rarely voting members.
b. Are kept to a minimum due to concerns regarding confidentiality.
c. Often include the CEO, medical director and CFO.
d. Often include the executive staff in planning and information management. -
Correct Answer ✔C
In assessing the advantage of using a focus group over a survey in evaluating a
program, one could say that focus groups:
a. Are likely to use a larger sample size.
b. Are more useful in designing improvements to a program.
c. Are more precise in designing improvements to a program.
d. Are useful only when maintaining objectivity is not important. -Correct Answer
✔B
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From a marketing viewpoint, the development of standards of practice, clinical
pathways, clinical guidelines and protocols can all be viewed as efforts to deal with
which unique aspect of delivering services:
a. Inseparability.
b. Intangibility.
c. Heterogeneity.
d. Perishability. -Correct Answer ✔C
What purpose do market plans fulfill for the healthcare organization?
a. Provide a business plan (or plans) as a subset of the organization's marketing
plan.
b. Present general goals for the organization to attain in the next three to five years.
c. Develop promotion methods to be used in attaining the organization's objectives.
d. Provide specific objectives for utilization attainment the next fiscal year. -
Correct Answer ✔D
The five major functions of marketing are:
a. Identifying markets, promoting the organization, recruitment of providers,
managing external relationships, patient selection.
b. Identifying markets, health promotion, managing external relationships, patient
selection, attracting capable workers.
c. Identifying markets, promoting the organization, managing external relationship,
convincing patients to select the organization, attracting capable workers.
d. Identifying markets, promoting the organization, managing external
relationships, strategic planning, physician recruitment. -Correct Answer ✔C
Forecasting organizational need for human resources by focusing on specific
position openings that are likely to occur and using these for planning is called:
a. Demand-pull approach.
b. Supply-push approach.
c. Succession analysis.
d. Transition matrix. -Correct Answer ✔A
A health services organization should use which of the following sequential
processes to help establish human resources (HR) objectives and policies?
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