Another possible payment source is insurance. While standard health insurance doesnât cover nursing home costs, healthy individuals can buy special long-term care insurance that does. But few seniors have this kind of coverage. Itâs expensive and underwriting standards can be difficult to meet.
Furthermore, if the patient is under general anesthesia, the waiting time of 30 minutes to less than an hour for the result of the frozen-section biopsy to come in will entail consumption and therefore, additional expenses, of anesthetic gases equivalent to the duration of the waiting.
Q. How long does it take to get the results? A. Depending on the urgency and type of analysis, the âturnaroundâ will generally take between three and five days. Urgent cases are returned within 24 hours, but most biopsies that do not require additional studies are available with 24â48 hours of receipt.