Pre-Tax Gain on Divestiture

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Investment spending at the Corporate level. Investment spending generally includes the first year spend for certain projects that require incremental investments in the form of additional operating expenses.

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Reflects the amount charged against earnings comprised of the costs to announce and effect a recall of defective merchandise.

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Aggregate carrying amount of the estimated litigation liability for known or estimated probable loss from litigation, which may include attorneys' fees and other litigation costs.

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Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.

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Number of segments reported by the entity. A reportable segment is a component of an entity for which there is an accounting requirement to report separate financial information on that component in the entity's financial statements.

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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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Segment Information (Narrative) (Details) $ in Millions	3 Months Ended		6 Months Ended
Segment Information (Narrative) (Details) $ in Millions	Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2018 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($) segment	Dec. 31, 2018 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2019 USD ($)
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of operating segments \| segment			2
Number of reportable segments \| segment			2
Project costs on investment and other spending	$ 17	$ 12	$ 20	$ 19
naviHealth [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Pre-Tax Gain on Divestiture				$ 508
Total Opioid Litigation [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Estimated Litigation Liability	5,630		5,630		$ 5,630
Sterile Surgical Gown Recall [Member] [Domain]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Inventory Recall Expense	$ 96		$ 96