Late-Breaking Abstracts (LBAs) are submitted to a theme for consideration for podium or poster presentation. Up to five abstracts accepted for podium presentation are grouped according to topic area.

Submissions are now closed.

  • Submission Deadline: Monday, March 27, 2023, at 5:00 p.m. ET
  • Notifications: End of April

Will Your Late-Breaking Research Qualify?


To qualify for presentation as a Late-Breaking Abstract, the submitted research should be likely to have a significant impact on the research community and/or represent a major advance or new finding for which the data or analyses were not available by the regular CFA deadline of January 12, 2023. Please explain why your data/analyses were not available by the original CFA deadline, and why your abstract should qualify as late-breaking.

Conference Themes


  • Addressing Patient and Consumer Preferences and Needs
  • Aging, Disability, and End of Life
  • Child and Family Health
  • Digital Technologies, Data, and Analytics
  • Dissemination, Implementation, and Impact
  • Global Health Research
  • Health Workforce
  • High Cost, High Need Populations
  • Improving Safety, Quality and Value
  • Measuring Safety, Quality and Value
  • Medicaid, Coverage, and Access
  • Medicare
  • Mental Health and Substance Use
  • Methods Research
  • Organizational Behavior and Management
  • Patient-Centered Research
  • Payment and Delivery Systems Innovations
  • Public and Population Health
  • Social Determinants and Social Needs
  • Structural Racism, Disparities, and Equity in Health
  • Women’s Health