Scope

1.3-Scope This Agreement is intended to serve as a framework for the collaborative measures the Parties will take to implement, maintain, and advance their mutually shared goal of preserving the integrity of the Medicare program; it is not intended to be a comprehensive description of the Parties’ working relationship. This Agreement does not create any affirmative duties, rights or legal obligations between the Parties, nor does it give any person or entity their successors and permitted assigns, any right, remedy or claim in it. Each Party has a contractual relationship with CMS and each party shall be solely responsible to CMS for its performance under this JOA and the terms of this Agreement shall not alter or amend a Party’s CMS Contract. If there are any conflicts between the terms of this Agreement and a Party’s CMS Contract, the terms of the Party’s CMS Contract shall take precedence. The terms of this Agreement shall be interpreted so as to resolve any conflict between it and a Party’s CMS Contract, and, if necessary, this Agreement shall be amended to reconcile any unresolved conflict with a Party’s CMS Contract.