Medicare counted 6,436 surgery centers in 2024. Trimedx now offers them equipment maintenance nationwide
Trimedx now offers surgery center equipment maintenance nationwide, with four service models, after Medicare's count of ASCs reached 6,436 in 2024.
Trimedx, the Indianapolis company that services medical devices for health systems, began offering surgery center equipment maintenance across the US on November 10, 2026. The move follows care out of the hospital: Medicare counted 6,436 certified surgery centers in 2024, and more open every year.
Key points
- Trimedx announced on November 10, 2026, that its Clinical Engineering Services, which it provides to health systems, are now offered to ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) nationwide.
- Centers can pick on-demand time-and-materials service, preventive maintenance, labor-only support or a full-service program, according to the company.
- Trimedx says centers using it get service responses up to 62% faster than from their current provider, 40% better equipment availability and 34% longer useful life from existing equipment.
- The number of Medicare-certified ASCs rose 2.2% to 6,436 in 2024, with 248 opening that year, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.
Why does surgery center equipment maintenance matter now?
Because there are more surgery centers every year, and each must keep its equipment maintained to stay in Medicare. The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's March 2026 report to Congress found that about 6,400 ASCs treated 3.4 million fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries in 2024, with program and beneficiary spending of about $7.5 billion. The count of certified centers has grown about 2.2% a year since 2019: 248 opened in 2024 while 108 closed or merged.
Medicare's conditions for coverage set the bar for the equipment inside them. Under 42 CFR 416.44, an ASC must have an environment that is "properly constructed, equipped, and maintained to protect the health and safety of patients," with each operating room equipped so its surgery can be done safely, and it must follow the 2012 edition of the NFPA 99 Health Care Facilities Code.
What does Trimedx offer ambulatory surgery centers?
Trimedx is offering ASCs four ways to buy clinical engineering, the work of keeping medical devices safe, compliant and in service: on-demand service billed on time and materials, a preventive maintenance program, labor-only support and a full-service program. Depending on the model chosen, the company says its work can cover:
- Preventive and corrective maintenance
- Regulatory documentation and a view of the center's equipment inventory
- Local technicians and program leadership
- Planning for future equipment
On top of any model, centers can add capital planning, recall and alert management, accreditation support, asset management through TMX Optimize and medical device cybersecurity through TMX Protect.
The service runs on TMX Maintain, part of the company's TMX platform for clinical assets, which Trimedx says pulls each device's service history, maintenance workflows and technical guidance into one place for its technicians.
How fast is ASC equipment service under Trimedx?
Trimedx says a repair that took three to four days to reach a surgery center often becomes a same-day visit. The company puts local technicians and engineers in front of each center, backed by its regional and national teams, and says this gives ASCs response times up to 62% faster than their current provider, a 40% gain in equipment availability and 34% more useful life from the equipment they already own.
What does this mean for surgery center leaders?
Our analysis: the choice of four models lets a center decide how much of its equipment program to hand over. That matters in a field where most centers are focused: about 68% of ASCs that billed Medicare in 2024 specialized in a single clinical area, most often gastroenterology or ophthalmology, MedPAC found.
In practice the models line up with three kinds of center:
- A small center with its own staff can buy repairs as they come on time and materials, or bring in Trimedx technicians on a labor-only basis.
- A growing center can put its devices on a preventive maintenance schedule, part of keeping equipment maintained as 42 CFR 416.44 requires.
- A large or multi-site center can move maintenance, compliance paperwork, accreditation support and replacement planning to one outside team under the full-service program.
With 248 centers opening in 2024 alone, many ASC leaders are setting up an equipment program from the start, and the four models let them size it to the center rather than to a hospital.
Frequently asked questions
How quickly does Trimedx answer a proposal request?
Trimedx says on its ambulatory surgery center services page that one of its ambulatory services staff responds within two business days, followed by tailored proposal options.
Can a surgery center add medical device cybersecurity?
Yes. Trimedx offers Cybersecurity Services powered by its TMX Protect platform as an add-on for ASC clients.
What is TMX?
TMX is Trimedx's clinical asset intelligence platform. The company says it is built on the service history of more than 7.5 million devices and holds data on 90 to 95% of the medical equipment in use in the US.
Who leads Trimedx's ambulatory surgery center business?
Matthew Bray is Trimedx's ambulatory service vice president and general manager. The Indianapolis company's chief commercial officer is Ted Dunham.
Sources
- Trimedx expands clinical engineering services for ambulatory surgery centers nationwide: press release from Trimedx via GlobeNewswire, 10 November 2026.
- Ambulatory surgical center services: Status report: Chapter 11 of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's March 2026 Report to the Congress.
- 42 CFR 416.44, Condition for coverage, Environment: the federal rule, in the Electronic Code of Federal Regulations.
- Trimedx ambulatory surgery center services: the company's page for the service.