---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 489.70"
title: "42"
number: "489.70"
heading: "Effect of payment by the Surety."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/489.70"
---

# §489.70. Effect of payment by the Surety.


A Surety's payment to CMS under a bond for an unpaid claim or an unpaid civil money penalty or assessment, constitutes—

- (a) Collection of the unpaid claim or unpaid civil money penalty or assessment (to the extent the Surety's payment on the bond covers such unpaid claim, civil money penalty, or assessment); and
- (b) A basis for termination of the HHA's provider agreement under [§ 489.53(a)(1)](/cfr/42/489.53.md?p=a-1).

## Notes

### Source

Source: 63 FR 313, Jan. 5, 1998, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302, 1395i-3, 1395x, 1395aa(m), 1395cc, 1395ff, and 1395hh.

### Source

Source: 45 FR 22937, Apr. 4, 1980, unless otherwise noted.