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Income Taxes (Details) (USD $)
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2014
Mar. 31, 2015
Dec. 31, 2014
Income Taxes      
Benefit from income taxes $ 4,389,000us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit    
NOL carryforwards      
Percentage Company is resident of NJ     100insm_PercentageCompanyIsResidentOfState
Unrecognized tax benefits disclosures      
Unrecognized tax benefits, interest and penalties accrued   0us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsIncomeTaxPenaltiesAndInterestAccrued  
Unrecognized tax benefits, reserves   0insm_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsReserves 0insm_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsReserves
IRS      
NOL carryforwards      
Net operating loss carryforwards for income tax purposes     461,800,000insm_OperatingLossCarryforwardsTotal
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Net operating loss carryforwards available to offset future taxable income     283,500,000us-gaap_OperatingLossCarryforwards
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Ownership change, as defined in Section 382, which could limit utilization of NOLs (as a percent)   50.00%insm_IncreaseInOwnershipOfCertainShareholdersOrPublicGroup
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Period of time for measuring ownership changes under Section 382   3 years  
New Jersey      
NOL carryforwards      
Cash proceeds from sale of NOLs, net of commissions 4,400,000insm_ProceedsFromSaleOfNOLNet
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Net operating loss carryforwards available to offset future taxable income     $ 63,000,000us-gaap_OperatingLossCarryforwards
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