SCHEDULE 13G

Amendment No. 9
Healthways Inc
Common Stock
Cusip #422245100


Cusip #422245100
Item 1:	Reporting Person - FMR LLC
Item 4:	Delaware
Item 5:	21,800
Item 6:	0
Item 7:	1,110,551
Item 8:	0
Item 9:	1,110,551
Item 11:	3.092%
Item 12:	    HC


Cusip #422245100
Item 1:	Reporting Person - Edward C. Johnson 3d
Item 4:	United States of America
Item 5:	0
Item 6:	0
Item 7:	1,110,551
Item 8:	0
Item 9:	1,110,551
Item 11:	3.092%
Item 12:	IN




	SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN
STATEMENTS
	FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)



Item 1(a).	Name of Issuer:

		Healthways Inc

Item 1(b).	Name of Issuer's Principal Executive Offices:

		3841 Green Hills Village Drive
		Nashville, TN  37215


Item 2(a).	Name of Person Filing:

		FMR LLC

Item 2(b).	Address or Principal Business Office or, if None,
Residence:

		82 Devonshire Street, Boston,
Massachusetts  02109

Item 2(c).	Citizenship:

		Not applicable

Item 2(d).	Title of Class of Securities:

		Common Stock

Item 2(e).	CUSIP Number:

		422245100

Item 3.	This statement is filed pursuant to Rule 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
and the person filing, FMR LLC, is a parent holding company
in accordance with Section 240.13d-1(b)(ii)(G).  (Note:  See
Item 7).

Item 4.	Ownership

	(a)	Amount Beneficially Owned:	1,110,551

	(b)	Percent of Class:	3.092%

	(c)	Number of shares as to which such
person has:

	(i)	sole power to vote or to direct
the vote:	21,800

	(ii)	shared power to vote or to
direct the vote:	0

	(iii)	sole power to dispose or to
direct the disposition of:	1,110,551

	(iv)	shared power to dispose or to
direct the disposition of:	0



Item 5.	Ownership of Five Percent or Less of a Class.

	If this statement is being filed to report the fact that as of the
date hereof, the reporting person has ceased to be the
beneficial owner of more than five percent of the class of
securities, check the following (X).

Item 6.	Ownership of More than Five Percent on Behalf of Another
Person.

	Not applicable

Item 7.	Identification and Classification of the Subsidiary Which
Acquired the Security Being Reported on By the Parent
Holding Company.

	See attached Exhibit A.

Item 8.	Identification and Classification of Members of
the Group.

	Not applicable.  See attached Exhibit A.

Item 9.	Notice of Dissolution of Group.

	Not applicable.

Item 10.	Certification.

	Inasmuch as the reporting persons are no longer the beneficial
owners of more than five percent of the number of shares
outstanding, the reporting persons have no further reporting
obligation under Section 13(d) of the Securities and Exchange
Commission thereunder, and the reporting persons have no
obligation to amend this Statement if any material change
occurs in the facts set forth herein.

Signature

	After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and
belief, I certify that the information set forth in this statement
is true, complete and correct.

March 07, 2008
Date

/s/Joseph Mari
Signature

Joseph Mari
Duly authorized under Power of Attorney
dated March 5, 2008 by and on behalf of FMR Corp. (now
known as FMR LLC) and its direct and indirect subsidiaries


	SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN
STATEMENTS
	FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)



	Pursuant to the instructions in Item 7 of Schedule 13G,
Fidelity Management & Research Company ("Fidelity"), 82
Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109, a wholly-
owned subsidiary of FMR LLC and an investment adviser
registered under Section 203 of the Investment Advisers Act
of 1940, is the beneficial owner of 1,089,751 shares or 3.034%
of the Common Stock outstanding of Healthways Inc  ("the
Company") as a result of acting as investment adviser to
various investment companies registered under Section 8 of
the Investment Company Act of 1940.

	Edward C. Johnson 3d and FMR LLC, through its
control of Fidelity, and the funds each has sole power to
dispose of the 1,089,751 shares owned by the Funds.

	Members of the family of Edward C. Johnson 3d,
Chairman of FMR LLC, are the predominant owners, directly
or through trusts, of Series B voting common shares of FMR
LLC, representing 49% of the voting power of FMR LLC.
The Johnson family group and all other Series B shareholders
have entered into a shareholders' voting agreement under
which all Series B voting common shares will be voted in
accordance with the majority vote of Series B voting common
shares.  Accordingly, through their ownership of voting
common shares and the execution of the shareholders' voting
agreement, members of the Johnson family may be deemed,
under the Investment Company Act of 1940, to form a
controlling group with respect to FMR LLC.

	Neither FMR LLC nor Edward C. Johnson 3d,
Chairman of FMR LLC, has the sole power to vote or direct
the voting of the shares owned directly by the Fidelity Funds,
which power resides with the Funds' Boards of Trustees.
Fidelity carries out the voting of the shares under written
guidelines established by the Funds' Boards of Trustees.

	Pyramis Global Advisors Trust Company ("PGATC"),
53 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02109, an indirect
wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR LLC and a bank as defined
in Section 3(a)(6) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, is
the beneficial owner of 20,800 shares or 0.058% of the
outstanding Common Stock of the Healthways Inc as a result
of its serving as investment manager of institutional accounts
owning such shares.

	Edward C. Johnson 3d and FMR LLC, through its
control of Pyramis Global Advisors Trust Company, each has
sole dispositive power over 20,800 shares and sole power to
vote or to direct the voting of 20,800 shares of Common Stock
owned by the institutional accounts managed by PGATC as
reported above.



	SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN
STATEMENTS
	FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
	RULE 13d-1(f)(1)  AGREEMENT

	The undersigned persons, on March 07, 2008, agree
and consent to the joint filing on their behalf of this Schedule
13G in connection with their beneficial ownership of the
Common Stock of Healthways Inc at February 29, 2008.

	FMR LLC

	By /s/ Joseph Mari
	Joseph Mari
	Duly authorized under Power of Attorney dated March
5, 2008, by Eric D. Roiter by and on behalf of FMR Corp.
(now known as FMR LLC) and its direct and indirect
subsidiaries

	Edward C. Johnson 3d

	By /s/ Joseph Mari
	Joseph Mari
	Duly authorized under Power of Attorney dated March
5, 2008, by Eric D. Roiter by and on behalf of Edward C.
Johnson 3d

	Fidelity Management & Research Company

	By /s/ Joseph Mari
	Joseph Mari
	Duly authorized under Power of Attorney dated March
5, 2008, by Eric D. Roiter Senior V.P. and General Counsel