Practise Certified Healthcare Access Manager (CHAM) with a short sample and answer explanations. These are independent learning materials, not official exam questions or a pass prediction.
Exam outline and official sources
National Association of Healthcare Access Management (NAHAM) · Selected syllabus basis: the CHAM examination content outline explicitly effective January 2023 in NAHAM's Candidate Guide to Certification, printed pages 8–9, with Pre-Arrival 25%, Arrival 35% and Access Management 40%. These percentages describe that selected version only. NAHAM's standalone outline marked Updated 2022 instead prints 30%, 30% and 40%, without an implementation date. Issuer-confirmed precedence between these publications and exact current examination proportions remain unconfirmed as of 2026-10-19; neither document is asserted to be obsolete.
This original 20-question sample covers selected topics across the outline. It does not reproduce official exam questions or cover every tested topic.
- NAHAM Candidate Guide to Certification
- Certified Healthcare Access Manager (CHAM) Exam Content Outline — Updated 2022
- SAFER Guide: Patient Identification
- HealthCare.gov: Coinsurance
- CMS HIPAA Eligibility Transaction System
- CMS: You have rights in an emergency room under EMTALA
- CMS: Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice
- HHS: Notice of Privacy Practices
- HHS: Facility directories and patient location disclosures
- SAFER Guide: Contingency Planning
- IHI: Model for Improvement — Establishing Measures
- IHI: Model for Improvement — Testing Changes
- AHRQ TeamSTEPPS: Formative Feedback
- HHS: Minimum Necessary Requirement
- CMS: Emergency Preparedness — Health Care Provider Guidance
- AHRQ CAHPS Data Tools
- Medicare.gov: Who pays first?
- Medicare.gov: Inpatient or outpatient hospital status affects your costs
- CMS: FFS Advance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage
- CMS: Health Care Claims Status
- AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit, Third Edition
- AHRQ: Teach-Back
- IHI: Model for Improvement
- AHRQ: TeamSTEPPS Measurement Tools
- AHRQ: Reviewing the Team's Performance — Debrief
- AHRQ: Check-Back or Repeat-Back
- HHS: Are hospitals able to inform the clergy about parishioners in the hospital?
Certified Healthcare Access Manager (CHAM)
Start with 20 free questions, then review the explanations and any topics you missed.
A planned nonemergency inter-facility transfer is requested for a specialty procedure unavailable at the sending hospital. The receiving hospital assigns a staffed bed, and its designated receiving hospitalist documents acceptance. The referring team cites the receiving hospital's website, which lists the procedure. Which conclusion should guide the access manager's next step?
Certified Healthcare Access Manager (CHAM)
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Pre-Arrival
Pre-Registration — patient-record error types
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