Statistician with Expertise in Longitudinal Mixture Models for Population Data

I am working on the analyses for a manuscript I hope to submit to a leading health policy journal. I am analyzing prescription drug data associated with the U.S. Medicaid program and its expansion under the Affordable Care Act. I have prescription drug data (converted to morphine milligram equivalents) for 50 states by quarter from 2008 through 2017. I also have details on which year and quarter a state did or did not expand their Medicaid program per the ACA. This variable can be represented as either a grouping (4 categories) or a time varying covariate (I am not sure which is the better way).

The dependent variable is prescription opioid fatality rates over the same time period but available only annually.

I want to see if variation of the proportion of prescriptions reimbursed for one of two specific classes of opioids: oxycodone or hydrocodone (a separate regression model for each) is associated with changes in the fatality rates over time and if Medicaid expansion status affected this relationship.

I am not sure how to set up what looks to me to be a conditional process model with proportion of prescriptions as a mediator and Medicaid expansion as a moderator. The time varying nature of Medicaid expansion is what is throwing me the biggest curve. I need help with the statistical model setup and post-estimation analysis of the best fitting model (e.g., is a quadratic term needed to represent time).

I dont need help setting up the data. I can set up the data set any way needed. I program in Stata and it would be easiest to use that but I have StatTransfer and can convert to any major statistical package (SPSS, SAS, Mplus, or R) if youre more fluent in one of those programs.
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Member since May 20, 2018
Mohit Kumar
from Kentucky, United States

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