Russ Adkins

Russ Adkins has more than two decades of legal, compliance and healthcare experience, including corporate and business matters, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory, compliance and health law. Adkins counsels the organization on health care, regulatory, strategic transactions, litigation, and operational and corporate governance matters.

Before joining U.S. Urology Partners in 2026, Adkins served nearly 13 years as Chief Legal Officer of Compassus, a Nashville-based leading provider of post-acute services. During his tenure at Compassus, Adkins helped scale the business and legal and compliance departments through tremendous growth, which included three private equity sponsorships, two recapitalizations, and dozens of platform acquisitions and joint ventures. Adkins also served as Chief Compliance Officer for Compassus for much of his tenure.

Prior to Compassus, Adkins served as the Vice President, Legal, for M*Modal Inc. (formerly MedQuist and Spheris), a leading global outsourcing provider of clinical documentation technology and services. He also served as associate general counsel while at Spheris. Prior to moving in-house, Adkins practiced law for private firms located in Boulder, Colorado, and Nashville, Tennessee.

Adkins earned his law degree from the University of Louisville School of Law and has a master’s degree in law from New York University School of Law.