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.
Dear co1214: In general, biopsy results take about a week. If, for some reason, it is not straight forward, it could take longer to have others review it. You might call the doctor who did the biopsy and ask if he/she can call to check on the results.