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.
By Mayo Clinic Staff. Expect your biopsy report from the pathology lab within about a week. In urgent situations, a full or partial report may be available in less than 24 hours. At a follow-up visit, your doctor will discuss the results. The results may further explain what's causing your kidney problem, or they may be used to plan or change your treatment.