Healthcare Cost Estimator

Happy Home, a Kalamazoo-based home health care provider, seeks a Commercial Estimator to support growth and client-focused care. In this role, you will analyze service requirements, labor, and overhead to accurately estimate costs for new contracts, care programs, and expansions. You will prepare bids and proposals, build pricing models, and track actuals against estimates to improve accuracy over time. Working closely with clinical, scheduling, and operations teams, you'll help ensure services remain high-quality, sustainable, and aligned with client needs and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Analyze labor, travel, equipment, and overhead to build accurate cost estimates for home health service contracts and programs.
• Prepare detailed bids, pricing models, and proposals that align with client needs, regulations, and company margin goals.
• Collaborate with clinical, scheduling, and operations teams to validate assumptions and staffing models.
• Track actual project and service costs versus estimates to refine pricing accuracy over time.
• Support financial forecasting and budgeting for new service lines and territory expansions.
• Review RFPs and contract requirements to identify cost drivers, risks, and opportunities.
• Maintain organized cost databases, rate sheets, and historical estimate records.
• Communicate estimate assumptions and results clearly to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

Required Skills

• Cost estimating
• Data analysis
• Budget development
• RFP and bid preparation
• Contract review
• Project cost tracking
• Advanced Excel
• Estimating software
• Risk assessment
• Stakeholder communication