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.
How long does it take for the results of a bone marrow biopsy?   The turn around time (TAT) for most labs that specialize in bone marrow core, clot, and aspirate testing are:   Morphology 24 - 48 hours   FLOW 24 - 48 hours   â¦ FISH or Cytogentics 6 - 7 days   PCR tests 3 - 4 days. Depending on where the tissue sample was sent for examination, a biopsy result usually takes from one week to 10 days. The lab will send the results to your dentist only â¦ , not to you. Contact your dentist for the results. 1 person found this useful.