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.
Doctors may offer you a blood pregnancy test because this test can confirm a pregnancy as early as 10 days after a missed period (around 6-8 days after you have ovulated) -- and sometimes, these tests can detect hCG even earlier. You must go to your doctor's office to get a blood pregnancy test.