MN nursing home resident fund bonds.
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A nursing home that keeps spending money for its residents is holding other people’s cash, and federal law makes securing it a condition of taking Medicare or Medicaid: the facility must purchase a surety bond, or otherwise provide assurance satisfactory to the Secretary, covering all personal funds of residents deposited with the facility. In Minnesota the filing goes to the Minnesota Department of Health, which licenses nursing homes and surveys them on behalf of CMS. Our premium is priced at 1% of the bond amount, with a $100 minimum; the application collects no credit information, and most applications approve instantly.

Filed with the Minnesota Department of Health — the agency that licenses your nursing home and surveys it for CMS
Secures every dollar of resident money you hold — not only the personal needs allowance, and refundable deposits count too
From $100, no credit section in the application — enter the highest balance your resident trust account carries and see your price at the application
From $1001% of the bond amount, $100 minimumNo credit fieldsin the applicationInstantissued the moment you pay
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How it works

Apply to filed in one sitting.

Licensure and certification run on the agency’s clock. The bond does not — once the business office has pulled the highest balance off the resident trust ledger, this is the quickest item on the checklist:

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Your facility name, the city and county the facility sits in, your own county, the bond amount your resident trust balances support, and an effective date. That is the entire application — no financial statements and no credit section.

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Your price is final at checkout — 1% of the bond amount, with a $100 minimum. The application collects no credit information, and most applications approve instantly. If a check ever runs, it is a soft pull that will not affect your score.

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File it with the Department

Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with the Minnesota Department of Health and to hand a surveyor who asks to see proof of the assurance. Wet-ink originals mailed on request.

About this bond

What it is and who needs it.

What the resident fund bond actually guarantees

Residents hand the business office their spending money because it is easier than keeping cash in a shared room — and because many of them cannot police the account themselves. Federal law treats that as a trust worth bonding. Sections 1819(c)(6)(B) and 1919(c)(6)(B) of the Social Security Act, implemented at 42 C.F.R. § 483.10(f)(10) under the heading assurance of financial security, make it a condition of participating in Medicare or Medicaid that the facility purchase a surety bond, or otherwise provide assurance satisfactory to the Secretary, to assure the security of all personal funds of residents deposited with the facility. Surveyors cite it as F570, and in Minnesota those surveyors work for the Department of Health.

The reach is wider than most administrators expect. It is not limited to the personal needs allowance — any resident money entrusted to the facility belongs inside the assurance, refundable deposit fees included. Neither the federal rule nor Minnesota’s own sets a formula for the dollar amount; a prudent practice is to bond to the largest balance the trust account is likely to carry, not an average and not last month’s figure. Federal guidance is equally clear about what does not count: self-insurance is not an acceptable substitute, neither is pointing at FDIC coverage on the bank account, and the facility cannot be the beneficiary of its own assurance. It is a three-party instrument — you as principal, the surety, and the State of Minnesota through the Department of Health as obligee, with the residents as the protected parties. It is not insurance for you: if the surety pays, you reimburse the surety.

Minnesota layers its own housekeeping rules on top, in the Resident Personal Funds Account parts of the nursing home rule. No funds may be taken for safekeeping without written authorization from the resident or the resident’s guardian, conservator, representative payee, or written designee, and a copy stays in the record. Resident money may never be commingled with the nursing home’s funds, may not be used for the home or for another resident, and must be kept free of any liability the home incurs. Balances over $100 go into a separate interest-bearing account with the interest credited to the resident, and a pooled account has to account separately for each resident’s share. On discharge the funds and a written accounting go back against a signed receipt — within five business days for money held outside the home — and on death they are conveyed with a final accounting to whoever administers the estate. Assisted living facilities are licensed separately under Minnesota Statutes chapter 144G; this bond belongs to the nursing home file.

42 C.F.R. § 483.10(f)(10) · Minn. R. 4658.0250–4658.0275 · Minnesota Department of HealthThe bond itself is federal. Sections 1819(c)(6)(B) and 1919(c)(6)(B) of the Social Security Act — the Medicare skilled nursing facility and Medicaid nursing facility participation requirements — are implemented in the resident rights rule at 42 C.F.R. § 483.10(f)(10), whose assurance-of-financial-security paragraph provides that the facility must purchase a surety bond, or otherwise provide assurance satisfactory to the Secretary, to assure the security of all personal funds of residents deposited with the facility. The same paragraph carries the account rules the bond stands behind: personal funds over $100 for a resident generally, and over $50 for a Medicaid-eligible resident, must sit in a separate interest-bearing account; the facility must maintain a full, complete, and separate accounting free of any commingling with facility funds, give the resident quarterly statements and access on request, notify a Medicaid-eligible resident when the balance approaches the SSI resource limit, and convey the funds and a final accounting within 30 days of discharge, eviction, or death. CMS surveys the requirement as F570, Surety Bond — Security of Personal Funds; its guidance extends the assurance beyond personal needs allowance money to any resident funds entrusted to the facility, including refundable deposit fees, and rejects self-insurance, reliance on FDIC-insured deposits, and any arrangement naming the facility as beneficiary — but it sets no formula for the dollar amount. Minnesota adds the Resident Personal Funds Account parts of the nursing home rule, Minnesota Rules 4658.0250 through 4658.0275, adopted under Minnesota Statutes sections 144A.04 and 144A.08: part 4658.0255 requires written authorization from the resident or the resident’s legal guardian, conservator, representative payee, or written designee before funds are accepted for safekeeping, with a copy retained in the record; part 4658.0260 bars commingling, bars use of the funds for the nursing home or another resident, requires the funds be kept free of the home’s liabilities, requires a full, complete, and separate accounting under generally accepted accounting principles, and requires quarterly statements and access on request; part 4658.0265 requires personal funds over $100 to be held in a separate interest-bearing account crediting interest to the resident, with pooled accounts separately accounting for each resident’s share, excepting veterans homes under Minnesota Statutes section 198.265; part 4658.0270 governs withdrawals; and part 4658.0275 requires return of the funds with a written accounting against a signed receipt on discharge, within five business days for funds maintained outside the nursing home, and conveyance of the funds and a final accounting to the individual or probate jurisdiction administering the estate on death. There is no published penal sum for this bond in either body of law — take the figure from your own trust ledger and confirm it with the Department of Health staff who hold your file before you buy.

You need this bond if you are

Certifying a Minnesota nursing facility for Medicare or Medicaid and holding resident funds in a trust account
Enrolling as a Minnesota Health Care Programs provider and closing out the resident-funds condition on the checklist
Responding to a survey citation that found no assurance on file, or an assurance smaller than your balances
Under new ownership or a new administrator and replacing a bond that ran to the prior licensee

One application, issued instantly.

These are the actual issuing fields — the facility name, the city and county where it operates, your own county, and the bond amount. No credit section, because this application does not collect credit information, and your exact price is set at the application from a $100 minimum.

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FAQ

Common questions.

How much is the Minnesota nursing home resident fund bond?Our premium is priced at 1% of the bond amount, with a $100 minimum. The bond amount is not ours to choose — it comes off your own resident trust ledger, because the assurance has to cover the resident funds you actually hold. Enter that figure and the exact price appears at the application.
What amount should I enter?Enough to cover every dollar of resident money on deposit at the busiest point of the year — the assurance reaches all resident funds entrusted to the facility rather than only the personal needs allowance, refundable deposit fees included. Neither CMS nor Minnesota publishes a formula for the dollar figure, so a prudent practice is to bond to the highest balance your trust ledger is likely to carry, not an average. Facilities that hold funds for a large census usually land well above the smaller tiers. Pull the number from the trust ledger, confirm it with the Department of Health staff on your file, and buy to that figure; a bond written under your balances is a survey finding waiting to happen.
What does the bond guarantee?That the personal funds residents deposited with the facility are actually there and are actually returned — accounted for separately, kept out of the home’s operating money, and conveyed to the resident or the estate when the stay ends. If the facility cannot produce them, the bond answers for the shortfall. You pay the premium, never the penal sum: the penal sum is the surety’s maximum exposure, not a deposit, and nobody holds your money. And it is not coverage for the facility — if the surety pays, you reimburse the surety.
Where do I file it?With the Minnesota Department of Health, which licenses nursing homes under Minnesota Statutes chapter 144A and conducts the federal certification survey on behalf of CMS. Keep a copy in the business office as well — a surveyor working the resident-funds tag will ask to see the assurance on the spot. Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email in a form you can file or hand over immediately, and we mail a wet-ink original on request.
Is there a credit check?The application collects no credit information, and most applications approve instantly. If a check ever runs, it is a soft pull that will not affect your score, and your price does not move at checkout.
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Premiums from $100, no credit section, and the bond issues the moment you pay. Enter your highest resident trust balance and file with the Department the same day. Free until issued.

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