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Steven Pearson — ICER President Steven D. Pearson Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe

Meetings of the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review don’t usually get one’s heart pumping. But a meeting Thursday at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology may prove to be the exception to that rule.

Patients Rising Now, an advocacy group that says it promotes transparency in health care and that is a fierce opponent of ICER’s, is expected to face off with the self-professed “watchdog of drug pricing” as it reviews three drugs for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Dozens of Duchenne patients and their families — many of whom also express concern that ICER’s review could undermine insurers’ already tepid interest in the treatments — are also expected to be in attendance.

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