Requires applicants for the Health Safety Net to be enrolled in other publicly-funded health programs, if eligible. Applicants deemed ineligible for such programs are required to provide the name and address of their employer and their own identifying information, including social security number.

Provides Health Care Quality and Cost Council - definitions of terms used in QCC statute.

Requires hospitals to conduct uniform reports to the Division of Health Care Finance and Policy, which must include the names and addresses of employers whose employees receive free care at the hospitals. Amended in 2010 to also require public and private insurance providers to submit to the Division of Health Care Finance and Policy an explanation of charges and costs associated with group and individual insurance plans.

Sets out provisions to determine an acute hospital's annual assessment to cover a portion of estimated expenses of the Division of Health Care Finance and Policy and the Health Safety Net office.

Amended powers of the Division of Health Care Finance and Policy to delete reference to Uncompensated Care Pool.

Amends the Division of Health Care Finance and Policy statute to include references to Health Care Quality and Cost Council and the provider and payer cost trends hearings.

Makes technical language changes in the definitions section of the Division of Health Care Finance and Policy statute. The changes relate to the replacement of the Uncompensated Care Pool program with the Health Safety Net.

Establishes provisions governing payments from the Health Safety Net Trust Fund to acute hospitals and community health centers.

Sets out provisions to determine acute hospital and ambulatory surgical center surcharge payments to the Health Safety Net Trust Fund.

Sets out provisions to determine an acute hospital's payments to the Health Safety Net Trust Fund and mechanisms to enforce the liability.