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Probability of Payment

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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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Fair value of financial instrument classified as a liability measured using unobservable inputs that reflect the entity's own assumption about the assumptions market participants would use in pricing.

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Fair Value Measurements - Summary of Level 3 Fair Value Measurements of Contingent Consideration (Details) - Fair Value, Inputs, Level 3 - USD ($) $ in Millions	9 Months Ended
	Oct. 01, 2016	Jul. 02, 2016	Apr. 02, 2016	Jan. 02, 2016	Jan. 03, 2015
Contingent Consideration Liabilities
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Contingent Consideration Liabilities	$ 40	$ 31	$ 36	$ 151	$ 50
Spinal Modulation \| Contingent Consideration Liabilities
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Contingent Consideration Liabilities	$ 7	2	6	122	0
Spinal Modulation \| Monte Carlo Simulation
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Expected revenue volatility	25.00%
Spinal Modulation \| Monte Carlo Simulation \| Minimum
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Discount Rate	0.80%
Spinal Modulation \| Monte Carlo Simulation \| Maximum
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Discount Rate	15.50%
Spinal Modulation \| Monte Carlo Simulation \| Contingent Consideration Liabilities
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Contingent Consideration Liabilities	$ 7
Nanostim \| Contingent Consideration Liabilities
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Contingent Consideration Liabilities	$ 2	2	2	2	50
Nanostim \| Probability Weighted Discounted Cash Flow
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Discount Rate	5.00%
Probability of Payments	10.00%
Nanostim \| Probability Weighted Discounted Cash Flow \| Contingent Consideration Liabilities
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Contingent Consideration Liabilities	$ 2
Thoratec \| Contingent Consideration Liabilities
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Contingent Consideration Liabilities	$ 27	27	28	27	0
Thoratec \| Probability Weighted Discounted Cash Flow
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Discount Rate	4.30%
Thoratec \| Probability Weighted Discounted Cash Flow \| Minimum
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Probability of Payments	0.00%
Thoratec \| Probability Weighted Discounted Cash Flow \| Maximum
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Probability of Payments	90.00%
Thoratec \| Probability Weighted Discounted Cash Flow \| Contingent Consideration Liabilities
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Contingent Consideration Liabilities	$ 27
U.S. Distributor \| Contingent Consideration Liabilities
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Contingent Consideration Liabilities	$ 4	$ 0	$ 0	$ 0	$ 0
U.S. Distributor \| Probability Weighted Discounted Cash Flow \| Minimum
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Discount Rate	0.90%
Probability of Payments	0.00%
U.S. Distributor \| Probability Weighted Discounted Cash Flow \| Maximum
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Discount Rate	1.10%
Probability of Payments	100.00%
U.S. Distributor \| Probability Weighted Discounted Cash Flow \| Contingent Consideration Liabilities
Fair Value Inputs, Assets, Quantitative Information [Line Items]
Contingent Consideration Liabilities	$ 4