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.
Different tests - different result times. 1  Results from the urea breath test or a stool antigen (HPSA) test are generally available within a few hours. 2  Results from a blood antibody test are usually available within 24 hours. 3  Results from biopsy samples obtained by endoscopy usually available within 48 hours.