Hospice care utilisation among elderly patients who died with hepatocellular carcinoma in the United States

•The majority of people do not want to die in the hospital.•Hepatocellular carcinoma is lethal and rates are rising.•Only 25% of Medicare recipients with hepatocellular carcinoma use hospice care.•Hospice care significantly reduced the number of in-hospital deaths (1.1% vs. 25.5%).•Use of hospice services produced a 48.6% reduction in daily charges.