1.  The Director shall include in the State Plan for Medicaid a requirement that the State shall pay the nonfederal share of expenses incurred in the administration of dialysis that is provided to stabilize a patient with kidney failure and further emergency care necessary for the treatment of such kidney failure.

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2.  For the purposes of this section, ‘dialysis’ means the method by which a dissolved substance is removed from the body of a patient by diffusion, osmosis and convection from one fluid compartment to another fluid compartment across a semipermeable membrane.