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The prominent cancer center has paid $1.9 million total in severance to its former chief medical officer, Dr. Jose Baselga, who resigned after failing to disclose payments from drug and other healthcare companies.
This article was published on Tuesday, December 22, 2020 in ProPublica. Dec. 22, 2:04 p.m. EST In 2018, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's chief medical officer, Dr. José Baselga, resigned under fire over his failure to disclose payments from health care companies in dozens of research articles he wrote. Now, recent Internal Revenue Service filings show the nonprofit hospital paid more than $1.5 million in severance to Baselga in 2018 and 2019. The revelations about the former executive led to significant changes governing Memorial Sloan Kettering's ties to the health care and pharmace...
A Reckoning Over Industry Ties ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This story was co-published with The New York Times. In 2018, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s chief medical officer, Dr. José Baselga, resigned under fire over his failure to disclose payments from health care companies in dozens of research articles he wrote. Now, recent Internal Revenue Service filings show the nonprofit hospital paid more than $1.5 million in severance to Baselga in 2018 and 2019. The revelat...