Father of 4 Needs Financial Medical Support

Phap Sam is a energetic 36 year old father of four active boys. He is the cornerstone to his family's business and popular around his small community as a kind and reliable business partner to his parents and loving single father to his children.  

Phap has suffered from supraventricular tachycardia since a young age and at the end of January, 2020 it forced him to seek emergency medical assistance.

After a week in two South Dakota hospitals, and an unsuccessful ablation surgery Phap was Life-flighted to Aurora, CO. for further treatment. From there he endured another unsuccessful ablation surgery, more SVT episodes and clostridium difficile, a stomach virus common in hospitals. One dead end after another lead Phap's doctors to the undesired decision of implanting a pacemaker to assist Phap's weak heart. 

Thankfully with the aid of the pacemaker, Phap was released and is currently recovering at home with his family. Unfortunately, like so many Americans, before and during this trial Phap could not afford health insurance and now his medical bills have begun to pour in.  It's sinking in how much it will cost him and his family's future to pay them off. 

Phap had little intention to post a GoFundMe. He intended to recover quickly, put his head down and go back to work to pay off his medical bills. However within 3 days of returning home to South Dakota for recovery, a horrific fire engulfed the 22 year family business, destroying the backbone of the Sam family finances. Now Phap and his family's future has no source of income and is full of overwhelming uncertainties.
And those medical bills are still pouring in.

Any gesture of kindness to Phap and his family is whole-heartedly appreciated at this time.
PLEASE pledge your support so that Phap can navigate through this difficult time.


Current account of actual medical debt:

Hot Springs ER visit -$3407.08 waiting on word for assistance 
Received X-ray in Hot Springs $36.00
Received Ambulance transport from Hot Springs
to Rapid City Regional - $1716.00
Rapid city Regional ER visit - $1296.00
NOT Received undisclosed "significant sum" from Rapid City Regional which included failed ablation surgery, unknown amounts of Adenosine shots, tests 
Anesthesia-$1820.00
Received Air-Method Flight for life bill - $74,990
Received Ambulance transport from Rapid City to Air-Method transport - $
Received Ambulance transport to UCHealth Denver - $2,360.00
CU medicine, EKGs-$21,000.00
Ambulance transport from RC Regional to air port-$ 
Received UCHealth ICU stay/ ablation surgery/Adenosine shots/C. diff treatment/ $0.00 Total federal charity forgiveness  (!!!)

Examples of Phap's predicted medical expenses:
Average cost of Life-flight with no medical insurance -$12,000-$25,000
Average cost of ambulance rides with no medical insurance -$400-$1,200 per ride
Average cost of ablation surgery with no medical insurance - $1,452-$2,626
Average cost of ICU stay with no medical insurance - $3,949/day
Average cost of pacemaker with no medical insurance - $6,250
Average cost of pacemaker implantation surgery, with no medical insurance - $24,078 - $57,347
Average cost of adenosine per 20ml with no medical insurance - $62/shot


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