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.
â¢ The right to have genetic testing to show whether or not the man is the childâs biological father. â¢ The right to a trial to have a court determine if the man if the childâs biological father. With voluntary paternity acknowledgment, also comes the responsibility to financially support the child.