Healthcare Logistics Solutions (HLS) is a healthcare freight management company that was built on a foundation of entrepreneurial spirit, hard work, and rock-solid business ethics. Rick Bayer, CEO, helped lead EHCR (Efficient Healthcare Consumer Response), which was a consortium of leading supply chain partners that focused on taking cost out of the healthcare supply chain in the mid to late 1990's. Rick believes the concept of "provider-driven" freight management is an excellent example of what EHCR was trying to accomplish. He previously owned a medical supply distribution company and served on the Board of HIDA (Health Industry Distributor Association) which gives him an excellent understanding of the distribution and manufacturing components of the healthcare supply chain. Rick then assembled a team that had experience in all areas of the healthcare supply chain and together they developed the HLS MedFreight® "provider-driven" freight management program from the ground up.


Thanks to the HLS MedFreight customers, the team takes pride in being the market leader and creating "provider-driven" freight management for the healthcare industry. As market leader we have earned the opportunity to serve over 500 hospitals. We have over 3,000 suppliers shipping through the model and we have earned sole source contracts with four national GPOs and several regional GPOs.


We thank all of our stakeholders, customers, GPOs and suppliers for their help in making our supply chain more efficient by creating "provider-driven" freight management.



To be The Best at reducing inbound and outbound freight costs by helping healthcare providers take control of their supply chain. We drive industry change by creating innovative information services that maximize our customers' savings across the supply chain.

We will accomplish this by:
  • Listening
  • Keeping our commitments
  • Being The Best at customer care
  • Giving more in value than we receive
The result is maximizing as close to 100% savings as possible for our customers through the aggregation of volume and aggregation of information.