Outsourcing as a measure seeking for cost reduction in public health care sector: Lithuanian case

Public institutions not much differ from big corporations in which both cost saving and efficiency are the main aims that encourage the managers of public institutions to consider the model of outsourcing. The object of this article is cost reduction in public health care sector. The aim of the article is to identify the factors that determine the choice of outsourcing as a measure to reduce costs in public health care sector. To fulfil this aim, the following objectives have been raised: 1) to analyse the factors that determine the choice of outsourcing in public health care sector; 2) to present the methodology of the research; 3) applying the method of expert evaluation, to identify the outsourcing factors that determine cost reduction in Lithuanian public health care sector.