[The 2026 National Medical Insurance Negotiation will be held on September 5] On September 3, we learned from a number of pharmaceutical companies that the 2026 National Basic Medical Insurance Drug List Negotiation and Bidding and the Commercial Insurance Innovative Drug List Price Negotiation will be launched on September 5 at the National People's Congress Conference Center. The pre-communication between the National Medical Insurance Administration and the negotiating companies was completed last week. This year, price negotiations for the catalog of commercially insured innovative drugs will also be carried out simultaneously, and a new version of the catalog of commercially insured innovative drugs will be formulated. Industry insiders predict that this year’s on-site negotiation and bidding for the adjustment of the national medical insurance catalog and the price negotiation for the commercially insured innovative drug catalog will last 4 to 5 days. (China Business News)