A former nursing home owner has been convicted of defrauding Medicaid out of $1.4 million and was fined $25,000 and sentenced to two years in prison Tuesday in U.S. District Court. For those of you who don't know, this is yet another form of nursing home abuse It's called financial abuse.

Billie Faye Anderson, the owner of the former Anderson Health Care Center in Gray, must now serve 24 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.

Part of the condition of her probation is that she cannot be employed by any business that receives government money. Anderson must also submit to a mental health assessment and any recommended treatment.

A jury convicted her in September of defrauding the government between July 2002 and January 2003 by concealing the fact that the nursing home was operating without a medical director.

Greer rejected Anderson's testimony that the nursing home was without a medical director for only three weeks and told her he found her actions "egregious, calculated and intentional."

Well of course her actions were calculated and intentional!

How else would she have been able to steal so much money from the government? It amazes me how many of these owners of nursing homes turn out to be crooks!

Either way, it seems this woman is getting what she deserved.