Additional compensation for health care professionals in COVID-19 pandemic: an essay in the light of health law.

This theoretical-critical assay is intended to perform a detailed reflection on the mandatory payment of an additional compensation to health care professionals during the pandemic caused by COVID-19. For this consideration, academic and opinion articles, as well as national and state legislative proposals, were searched in dialogue with Regulatory Standard 15, which provides for unhealthy activities and operations. After reflection, the position taken is that payment is due for the duration of the pandemic, to all health care professionals working in the frontline against COVID-19.