The former Catholic Medical Center cardiologist who blew the whistle on his employer will receive $570,000 for disclosing a kickback scheme connected to the hospital, according to the settlement agreement that ends the case.
The payment represents 15% of the $3.8 million that Catholic Medical Center agreed to pay to resolve the claims brought by the hospital's former medical department chairman, Dr. Joseph Goldberg.
Meanwhile, Goldberg started a volunteer position with state government last week when he took a seat on the New Hampshire Board of Medicine. On Jan. 26, the Executive Council approved Gov. Chris Sununu's nomination of Goldberg for an unpaid, four-year term on the board.
Goldberg's resume shows that the Cornell- and Yale-educated physician was the chairman of the CMC department of medicine, vice president of the medical staff and physician leader of the hospital transfer center before his departure at the end of 2016.
"He's an ethical man," said his lawyer, Chuck Douglas of Concord. "People who do this, they have to have a strong moral compass. They also have to have guts and patience."
CMC spokeswoman Lauren Collins-Cline said the hospital cannot speak about personnel matters or the performance of its employees.
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