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Income Taxes (Reconciliation Between Effective Tax Rate On Income From Continuing Operations And Statutory Tax Rate) (Details) (USD $)
In Millions, unless otherwise specified
12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2015
Mar. 31, 2014
Mar. 31, 2013
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]      
Income tax expense at federal statutory rate $ 930us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationIncomeTaxExpenseBenefitAtFederalStatutoryIncomeTaxRate $ 760us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationIncomeTaxExpenseBenefitAtFederalStatutoryIncomeTaxRate $ 683us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationIncomeTaxExpenseBenefitAtFederalStatutoryIncomeTaxRate
State income taxes net of federal tax benefit 81us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationStateAndLocalIncomeTaxes 57us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationStateAndLocalIncomeTaxes 58us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationStateAndLocalIncomeTaxes
Foreign income taxed at various rates (247)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationForeignIncomeTaxRateDifferential (177)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationForeignIncomeTaxRateDifferential (143)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationForeignIncomeTaxRateDifferential
Canadian litigation 0mck_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateReconciliationDiscreteItems 122mck_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateReconciliationDiscreteItems 0mck_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateReconciliationDiscreteItems
Effective Income Tax Rate Reconciliation, Tax Contingency, Other, Amount 58us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationTaxContingenciesOther 0us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationTaxContingenciesOther 0us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationTaxContingenciesOther
Unrecognized tax benefits and settlements 10us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationTaxContingencies (6)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationTaxContingencies 1us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationTaxContingencies
Tax credits (10)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationTaxCredits (6)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationTaxCredits (13)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationTaxCredits
Other, net (7)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationOtherReconcilingItems 7us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationOtherReconcilingItems 1us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationOtherReconcilingItems
Income tax expense $ 815us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit $ 757us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit $ 587us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit