Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (CCMA) Certification Examination — exam facts
United States (national certification)
Every source below was read on 2026-09-03
| Administering body | National Healthcareer Association (NHA) — exam delivered by a PSI testing center, a live remote proctoring provider, or the candidate's own school or employer NHA states that where live remote proctoring is used, the proctoring provider is selected for the candidate at registration. Source: NHA — Candidate Handbook (PDF, updated 06/01/2026) (2026-09-03) |
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| Questions | 180 questions (150 scored, 30 unscored pretest) Pretest questions do not affect the score. The scored items are distributed across the content areas set out in the test plan. Source: NHA — Test Plan for the Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (CCMA) Exam (2022 job analysis, PDF) (2026-09-03) |
| Time limit | 180 minutes NHA's CCMA certification landing page does not restate the time limit; the test plan is the document NHA's handbook points candidates to for it. Source: NHA — Test Plan for the Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (CCMA) Exam (2022 job analysis, PDF) (2026-09-03) |
| Passing score | Scaled score of 390 on a 200–500 scale This is a scaled score, not a percentage. NHA weights items by difficulty and does not publish the raw-to-scaled conversion, so it cannot be restated as a percentage or as a number of correct answers. Score reports additionally rate each content area as above, near or below the passing standard. Source: NHA — Candidate Handbook (PDF, updated 06/01/2026) (2026-09-03) |
| Fees |
NHA's store renders its prices client-side, so the price is visible to a human opening the linked product page but is absent from the page's HTML. The figure here was read from NHA's own store system on the retrieval date. An examination fee is charged for every attempt, so a retake costs another exam fee. Source: NHA store — Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (CCMA) Exam Application (2026-09-03) |
| Languages offered | English English only, stated affirmatively in the handbook rather than merely absent from it: NHA does not provide translated forms, translation aids or interpreters. Source: NHA — Candidate Handbook (PDF, updated 06/01/2026) (2026-09-03) |
Change log
- 2026-09-03Fact sheet created from NHA's Candidate Handbook (updated 06/01/2026) and the CCMA test plan. The passing rule is kept as NHA's scaled score and is never restated as “X of 150 correct”.