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.
Colposcopy results. The colposcopist will usually be able to tell straight away if there are abnormal cells in your cervix. Biopsy results usually take about four weeks and a copy will be sent to both you and your GP in the post. About 4 out of 10 women who have a colposcopy have a normal result.