FACHE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDATED
(2024/2025) (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
EMTALA - Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labour Act - ANS
✓Requires all HCOs providing emergency care to accept all patients, regardless
of ability to pay, until they are stabilized and can be safely moved
The Joint Commission - ANS ✓A voluntary consortium of professional provider
organizations that evaluates and accredits a wide range of different HCOs. HCOs
MUST have an accreditation by a CMS deemed-status organization in order to
receive funds from Medicare. Some insurance plans are accredited by the
National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
Associates - ANS ✓People who give their time and energy to the organization.
They can be employees, trustees and other volunteers and medical staff
members.
Licensed Independent Practitioners (LIPs) - ANS ✓Caregivers granted legal
status to provide specific kinds of healthcare, categorized as primary care or
specialist providers who are usually physicians or advanced practice nurses
(NPs, nurse midwives)
Primary Care Practitioners (PCPs) - ANS ✓physicians and advanced practice
nurses specializing in family medicine, general internal medicine, paediatrics,
obstetrics, and psychiatry and are the most common initial contacts for patients
and specialize in family medicine, general internal medicine, peds, OB/GYN, and
psychiatry
Specialist Practitioners - ANS ✓LIPs who care for patients referred by PCPs on
a more limited and transiet basis. More likely to manage episodes of inpatient
care
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Hospitalists - ANS ✓Accept relatively broad categories of patients and manage
inpatient care only
Community Benefit - ANS ✓Requires hospitals to satisfy the community benefit
standard in order to qualify as tax-exempt charities under 501c3 of the IRS code.
The standard addresses charitable care, educational services, and other benefits
HCOs provide to their communities
Healthcare Systems - ANS ✓A corporate or governmental structure including
one or more hospitals and often other HCO services
Privileges - ANS ✓Define quality and service obligations but allow a wide
variety of financial agreements
Federally Qualified Health Centre (FQHC) - ANS ✓Services for underserved
areas or populations that offer a sliding fee scale, provide comprehensive
services, have ongoing quality program, and seat a board of directors, funded
with grants under section 330 of the Public Health Service Act, also referred to as
community health centres. not-for-profit clinics addressing the needs of the poor
and uninsured. Independent local governing boards, but affiliate with local
hospitals
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) - ANS ✓created by ACA. Set of
healthcare providers, PCP, specialists, and hospitals - work collaboratively and
accept collective accountability for the cost and quality of care delivered to a
population of patients. The patient-centred medical home is an accepted model
for achieving ACO goals
Patient-Centred medical home - ANS ✓A mechanism for organizing primary
care to provide high-quality care across the full range of individuals' healthcare
needs
Vertical Integration - ANS ✓Affiliation of organizations that provide different
kinds of service, such as hospital care, ambulatory care, long-term care, and
social services. They integrate and support a large group of care teams, most
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