Posted by: ark March 8, 2018
Avoiding fee for not having Health insurance
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If you are out of US for 330 days or more in a given year, then u don’t need to pay the fee for not having the insurance.
If you have a gap of less than 3 consecutive months without insurance, you don’t need to pay the fee.

Regarding how irs knows, like others said, health isurance companies send a copy of the proof (a form)to the person and another copy to IRS. People having insurances don’t send that form to IRS as IRS gets it directly from the insurance companies.
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