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.
A cutaneous nerve/skin biopsy is a very simple procedure performed in the outpatient setting which takes 10 to 15 minutes. 1  The skin is thoroughly cleaned and a small injection of a local anesthetic to numb the skin is made. 2  A sample of skin is taken by a biopsy from the numb area of the skin.