ACHE - BOG Exam
ACHE BOG Test Practice Questions and
Answers 2025
All of the following are commonly recognized to be a right of each patient, except:
a. The right to considerate and respectful care
b. The right to receive a reasonable response to his/her requests
c. The right to communicate with a caregiver in the language of the patients
choosing
d. For dying patients, the right to receive pain management. -Correct Answer ✔C.
Insurance companies and other payers have introduced pre-admission certification
for elective hospital stays in order to:
a. Cause physicians to reconsider need for service
b. Facilitate communication between hospital and the attending physician
c. Establish clinical necessity prior to service
d. Encourage the patient to obtain a second opinion -Correct Answer ✔C.
Guidelines produced by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research:
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,ACHE - BOG Exam
a. Have been shown to decrease healthcare costs
b. Rarely need to be revised
c. Provide starting points for managing individual patients
d. Have been shown to improve the quality of care -Correct Answer ✔C.
CEO compensation should be based on:
a. The compensation arrangements with the prior CEO
b. Executive compensation in local corporations with similar gross revenues
c. Present salary plus cost-of-living adjustment
d. What the institution would have to pay for a similarly prepared person if that
person were
employed elsewhere -Correct Answer ✔D.
An essential function of the governing board is to:
a. Approve the mission, vision, and long-range plan
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,ACHE - BOG Exam
b. Focus on strategic planning
c. Prepare the operating plan
d. Review performance of departmental activities -Correct Answer ✔A.
Members of the medical staff are eligible for full membership on the governing
board in the same manner as other individuals:
a. When not legally prohibited
b. When they do not actively practice in the organization
c. When they are not full-time employees
d. If they are not foreign nationals -Correct Answer ✔A.
Regarding the budget, the board:
a. Does not use the budget exercise as a way to improve quality and productivity
b. Gets involved in preparing budgets for all operational units
c. Decides which personnel are needed in top management
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, ACHE - BOG Exam
d. Establishes guidelines and makes final choices among competing opportunities -
Correct Answer ✔D.
The individual or group responsible for establishing policy, maintaining quality of
care and
providing for institutional management planning is the:
a. Chief operating officer
b. Medical staff executive committee
c. Governing body
d. Chief executive officer -Correct Answer ✔C.
A correct statement regarding trustees serving as fiduciaries is that they can:
a. Be indicted for alleged theft of facility funds and the improper expenditure of
facility funds for personal reasons
b. Be released from responsibility by giving the audit committee final authority in
high-risk areas of financial matters, without any action by the whole board
c. Be held personally liable for wrongful acts or omissions by corporate officers or
co-trustees by virtue of their position as trustees
ACHE - BOG Exam
ACHE BOG Test Practice Questions and
Answers 2025
All of the following are commonly recognized to be a right of each patient, except:
a. The right to considerate and respectful care
b. The right to receive a reasonable response to his/her requests
c. The right to communicate with a caregiver in the language of the patients
choosing
d. For dying patients, the right to receive pain management. -Correct Answer ✔C.
Insurance companies and other payers have introduced pre-admission certification
for elective hospital stays in order to:
a. Cause physicians to reconsider need for service
b. Facilitate communication between hospital and the attending physician
c. Establish clinical necessity prior to service
d. Encourage the patient to obtain a second opinion -Correct Answer ✔C.
Guidelines produced by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research:
ACHE - BOG Exam
,ACHE - BOG Exam
a. Have been shown to decrease healthcare costs
b. Rarely need to be revised
c. Provide starting points for managing individual patients
d. Have been shown to improve the quality of care -Correct Answer ✔C.
CEO compensation should be based on:
a. The compensation arrangements with the prior CEO
b. Executive compensation in local corporations with similar gross revenues
c. Present salary plus cost-of-living adjustment
d. What the institution would have to pay for a similarly prepared person if that
person were
employed elsewhere -Correct Answer ✔D.
An essential function of the governing board is to:
a. Approve the mission, vision, and long-range plan
ACHE - BOG Exam
,ACHE - BOG Exam
b. Focus on strategic planning
c. Prepare the operating plan
d. Review performance of departmental activities -Correct Answer ✔A.
Members of the medical staff are eligible for full membership on the governing
board in the same manner as other individuals:
a. When not legally prohibited
b. When they do not actively practice in the organization
c. When they are not full-time employees
d. If they are not foreign nationals -Correct Answer ✔A.
Regarding the budget, the board:
a. Does not use the budget exercise as a way to improve quality and productivity
b. Gets involved in preparing budgets for all operational units
c. Decides which personnel are needed in top management
ACHE - BOG Exam
, ACHE - BOG Exam
d. Establishes guidelines and makes final choices among competing opportunities -
Correct Answer ✔D.
The individual or group responsible for establishing policy, maintaining quality of
care and
providing for institutional management planning is the:
a. Chief operating officer
b. Medical staff executive committee
c. Governing body
d. Chief executive officer -Correct Answer ✔C.
A correct statement regarding trustees serving as fiduciaries is that they can:
a. Be indicted for alleged theft of facility funds and the improper expenditure of
facility funds for personal reasons
b. Be released from responsibility by giving the audit committee final authority in
high-risk areas of financial matters, without any action by the whole board
c. Be held personally liable for wrongful acts or omissions by corporate officers or
co-trustees by virtue of their position as trustees
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