Nursing Home Worker Accused of Soliciting Kickbacks From Comp Physician

A man who ran the workers' compensation program for a nursing home in central Pennsylvania faces a conspiracy charge for allegedly soliciting kickbacks from a physician who worked at the facility, federal prosecutors announced. Paul D. Polen, 71, was chief of operations at Susque-View Home Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Lock Haven. Among other things, he ran the facility's workers' compensation program. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania said Polen hired a physician to fill a consulting position at the nursing home in 2002. The docto...