Sloan Kettering Paid $1.5 Million Severance to a Cancer Doctor Forced Out Over Conflicts
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center gave Dr. José Baselga a payout after he resigned under fire in 2018 over his ties to health care companies.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan.Credit.Jeenah Moon for The New York Times
Dec. 22, 2020
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 Dr. Baselga in 2018 and 2019.