---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1320a–7f"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "1320a–7f"
heading: "Coordination of medicare and medicaid surety bond provisions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/1320a-7f"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Social Security"
  - "Subchapter XI — General Provisions, Peer Review, and Administrative Simplification"
  - "Part A — General Provisions"
---

# §1320a–7f. Coordination of medicare and medicaid surety bond provisions


In the case of a home health [agency](/usc/42/1397n–12.md?p=1) that is subject to a surety bond requirement under subchapter XVIII and subchapter XIX, the surety bond provided to satisfy the requirement under one such subchapter shall satisfy the requirement under the other such subchapter so long as the bond applies to guarantee return of overpayments under both such subchapters.


## Source credit

(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XI, § 1128F, as added Pub. L. 106–113, div. B, § 1000(a)(6) [title III, § 304(b)], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1536, 1501A–361.)