
Quoting
Mr. Knowitall
The consistent complaint is that the doctor won't give you a copy of your records until you pay what you owe.
You have been told that your doctor must provide to your new doctor(s) sufficient medical records to ensure continuity of care. To them, not to you. Not all, just those necessary.
If you insist upon putting yourself in the middle, you are creating the problem instead of solving it.
If the new pain doctor won't accept you as a patient until you produce records from your old pain doctor, and also won't accept the hospital records as an alternative, and in fact your former doctor won't provide those records necessary for continuity of care directly to the new doctor, then go to a different doctor. There are lots of doctors to choose from.