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Share-Based Payments (Details 2)	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Market stock units
Schedule of stock option grants
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Cash settled performance shares
Schedule of stock option grants
Stock units	112,000us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsGrantsInPeriod / us-gaap_PlanNameAxis = biib_CashSettledPerformanceSharesMember	172,000us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsGrantsInPeriod / us-gaap_PlanNameAxis = biib_CashSettledPerformanceSharesMember
Performance units
Schedule of stock option grants
Stock units	89,000us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsGrantsInPeriod / us-gaap_PlanNameAxis = us-gaap_PerformanceSharesMember	50,000us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsGrantsInPeriod / us-gaap_PlanNameAxis = us-gaap_PerformanceSharesMember
Time-vested restricted stock units
Schedule of stock option grants
Stock units	351,000us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsGrantsInPeriod / us-gaap_PlanNameAxis = biib_TimeVestedRestrictedStockUnitsMember	392,000us-gaap_ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardEquityInstrumentsOtherThanOptionsGrantsInPeriod / us-gaap_PlanNameAxis = biib_TimeVestedRestrictedStockUnitsMember

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The number of grants made during the period on other than stock (or unit) option plans (for example, phantom stock or unit plan, stock or unit appreciation rights plan, performance target plan).

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-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 718

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

-Paragraph 2

-Subparagraph (c)(2)(iii)(1)

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