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.
I think it took around 20-30 minutes. They smeared jelly on my back and stomach and did an ultra sound similar to when a pregnant woman has a scan to see a baby is ok and the actual Biopsy, I felt nothing and only heard a small click. I could see no mark of a puncture and assume the piece taken was very small.