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Fair Value Inputs, Royalty Rate

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Interest rate used to find the present value of an amount to be paid or received in the future as an input to measure fair value. For example, but not limited to, weighted average cost of capital (WACC), cost of capital, cost of equity and cost of debt.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 820
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
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-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=66048111&loc=d3e19207-110258

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Percentage of assumed long-term growth in revenues, used as an input to measure fair value.

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Fair Value Measurements - Fair Value Inputs (Details)	3 Months Ended		6 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
Fair Value Measurements - Fair Value Inputs (Details)	Dec. 31, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015	Oct. 03, 2016	Dec. 31, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015	Jun. 27, 2015
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
5-year average growth rate	2.00%	3.40%	2.00%
Discount rate					7.72%	7.83%
Omega - Lifestyle
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
5-year average growth rate				2.50%
Long-term growth rates				2.00%
Discount rate				9.30%
Omega - XLS
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
5-year average growth rate				3.20%
Discount rate				9.50%
Royalty rate				4.00%
Entocort® - Branded Products
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
5-year average growth rate				(31.70%)
Long-term growth rates				(10.00%)
Discount rate				13.00%
Entocort® - AG Products
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
5-year average growth rate				(30.40%)
Long-term growth rates				(4.70%)
Discount rate				10.50%
Herron Trade names and Trademarks
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
5-year average growth rate				4.60%
Long-term growth rates				2.50%
Discount rate				10.80%
Royalty rate				11.00%