CHA Study Guide 2026
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📋 CHA Exam Format at a Glance
📚 CHA Topics to Study (21)
✍️ Sample CHA Questions & Answers
1. What quality assurance measure supports professional standards and ethics?
Ongoing quality assurance through self-assessment, peer review, and standards adherence ensures continuous improvement.
2. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which hospice employees are typically exempt from overtime pay requirements?
FLSA exempts certain executive, administrative, and professional employees who meet specific salary and duties tests from the overtime pay requirement.
3. Which law requires hospice employers to screen staff against the OIG List of Excluded Individuals and Entities (LEIE) prior to hire?
The Social Security Act prohibits hospices from employing or contracting with individuals on the OIG LEIE, as payments for their services cannot be reimbursed by Medicare or Medicaid.
4. Under OSHA regulations, hospice employers must provide which type of training at no cost to employees who face potential occupational exposure to bloodborne pathogens?
OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogens Standard requires employers to provide annual training to employees with occupational exposure to blood or other potentially infectious materials.
5. What quality assurance measure supports industry best practices?
Ongoing quality assurance through self-assessment, peer review, and standards adherence ensures continuous improvement.
6. The Stark Law (Physician Self-Referral Law) prohibits physicians from referring Medicare patients to a hospice in which the physician has a financial relationship unless:
The Stark Law bans self-referrals to entities with which the physician has a financial relationship unless a statutory or regulatory exception applies.