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.
Even if the mother was not married when the child was born, and a DNA test establishes the biological fatherâs paternity without question, he wonât have an automatic right to have a court grant his petition for legitimation.The court will consider the best interests of the child.ven if the mother was not married when the child was born, and a DNA test establishes the biological fatherâs paternity without question, he wonât have an automatic right to have a court grant his petition for legitimation.