To their dismay, patients have to pay for the drug tests at their own (or their insurersâ) expense. Carol, a chronic pain patient who had been treated for seven years by the same clinic without any testing, reports that she was billed $325 for a urine screen.
Reviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MD. May 2, 2012 -- Researchers say they've found a way to identify the father of a baby as early as the eighth week of pregnancy. The new method, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, uses fetal DNA isolated from the mother's blood.
Stockbyte/Stockbyte/Getty Images. Blood Test. You can get a blood test 7 days after you ovulate, which is usually a week before your period. Blood tests can take longer to process than other methods of pregnancy tests, but a blood test can detect pregnancy earlier and is 99% accurate.You'll get your results back within 1 to 3 days, depending on how busy the lab is.here are two types of blood tests. One type measures exactly how much hCG is in your blood stream to determine how far along you are in your pregnancy. The other type gives a straight yes or no answer if you're pregnant or not. Both methods take the same amount of time to process.